I am not naive about what I am asking when I ask Cook to do otherwise. I am not suggesting that defiance is free, or that principle is costless, or that the structural constraints Cook operates under are imaginary. I argued in January, and I argue now, that he built those constraints himself over decades of choices that compounded into dependency. But I am aware that the constraints are real, that unwinding them is not a matter of a single brave gesture, and that the world does not always reward the kind of moral clarity I am describing.