Sometimes surrender is wise. This is not one of those times.
New Orleans should be rebuilt, as before but stronger and better.
So should the World Trade Center towers.
Wise or not, surrender to evil is ‘bad for the soul’. That is to say, it is harmful in many traceable and untraceable ways over and above the loss of the immediate thing being surrendered. The same is true of despair or resignation in the face of challenges from nature.
Correspondingly, defiance of evil, and of natural challenges, is good. It affirms life, and has unforeseeable benefits.
