That's right. A strategy has to be chosen carefully, and if things are already to this point, it's clear that just resisting isn't a strategy that will work. This is just what they do to everyone, after all. What happens to people who refuse to do it?

"You're right," she says at last. "Under these circumstances, the only thing we can do is to avoid worsening the situation. For the time being, we'll have to..."