User blog comment:Ghmorello/Chapter 927: Wano's Next Top Geisha/@comment-24850639-20181207173202/@comment-99.72.92.253-20181209005653

The issue is that if there is nothing you can do then there is no point in fighting. If you try to kill someone when you don't think you have a chance then you are just using the attitude of "I'm going to fight even though I know I will die and my death will accomplish nothing". Hopelessness can make people content with their lot in life. In another book where the protagonist is told of how if they don't do something then they will live their entire life under the banner of a tyrant their response is "It's easy if you don't look up". As long as they don't have to constantly see the tyranny then it becomes easier to bear. It is not an ideal mindset, but she probably figures that if someone was going to do something then it would have been done by now. Since it hasn't she has no reason at this point to believe that the situation will ever get better. It is too early to say, but for now recklessly committing to an action that might not succeed will not only mean her death, but the deaths of everyone who she might be affiliated with.