The justification for armed deterrence and resistance does not depend on whether one will prevail, but on whether one can inflict a cost on the tyrant sufficient to at least give him pause. It is ultimately about what one's life stands for.
Or as it has been said, "I've lived a good life and I'm ready to go, but I plan to outlive anyone who tries to hasten my departure, if only by a few seconds."
The same might be said about anyone attempting to deprive one of fundamental rights, which are, ultimately, the legal claims we are willing to kill and risk being killed to establish.
Paul Finkelman wrote:
But, had all the ablebodied Jewish men in 1933 started fighting the German government, does anyone really believe they would have prevailed?
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