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Ghetto Uprising better known than Warsaw Uprising? [111]
The Red Army loved the Warsaw Uprising.
Europe's founding myth, the original stand of Europeans against Asians, is the battle of Thermopylae. A stand that failed. Still worth standing, even in failure. Still influential on our identity.
So the end result isn't what determines if it was worth to fight. If you fight for a good cause, its worth to fight, win or lose. That's the moral high ground.
And even in utilitarian, consequentialist terms, losing a fight can help establish deterrence. Fighting the bully and losing still lets the bully know, there's no free lunch here. He'll have to fight for it. So he'll probably look elsewhere next time.