“who prefer to go down with the Titanic rather than jump into a lifeboat with a dripping pinhole in the prow.”
How about a better analogy? We’d prefer to go down with the Titanic rather than jump into a lifeboat being kept afloat by just a few murdered babies, or the lifeboat kept afloat by a lot of murdered babies. Sinking is preferable to us than either of those options.
Instead of supporting policies to save most of the babies, you hold out for all and get none.
That’s not very wise.