Before you is a door with a sign that says, “Surrender”.
You can step through the door if you want to.
With full knowledge of your surrender if you do.
Or not. You can choose some other door, or no door at all, if you prefer. It’s your choice, your informed choice, your consent, your decision.
Most people do not.
They pass by the door, sometimes avoiding even letting anyone else see that they *noticed* the door.
Perhaps they have no interest in surrender.
Perhaps they don’t have the courage.
Perhaps they would want to see others surrender first.
Perhaps they would surrender if they saw everyone else surrender, and then would rush forward to not be left out.
In any case, you can step through the door, if you want to. Or not, if you don’t want to.
It only takes one step.
Step through the door, and you haven’t surrendered *yet*.
However, your surrender is now inevitable.
Before you stretches a corridor. Behind you the door closes and locks.
You could, of course, just stay here. At the end of the corridor. Forever.