Choices Compelled
If The Other is compelled to contend with you, there comes a juncture where the only merciful move is to win immediately. In this way, one avoids compelling undue harm, that The Other would cause to themselves in contending past a juncture of hopelessness and heavy cost. Surrender may appear to be an option, but the contest would simply shift stages. If compulsion must intersect compulsion, then one's Lord compelling them not to contend, from this juncture witnessed, would be preferable to being forced to contend without choice or cause. One's Lord may even feel compelled, on moral grounds, to make such a move.