Wise words anon.
I will add, however, that men and women will do what they feel necessary to survive. We did not survive hundreds of thousands of years by submitting.
Your words are true and what we should strive for, yet when people feel their future is on the verge of being destroyed, they will do what they feel they must.
We are at the point where balance is necessary, and while good for stage drama, a rather objectionable state.