Manning Up: Fight or Flight?

In my relatively limited number of years in this life I have found, from time to time, that fighting is considered to be a manly act and that evasion is unmanly behavior, and therefore feminine. I really hadn't given this conception much tough until I saw the new Daniel Craig film "Defiance" this past Monday. To be fair I ended up enjoyed it, but I was let down by it at the start. I had pictured it being a guns blazing, action packed war movie, you know a film filled with typical "man" stuff. As it turns out one of the main underlying themes was that of manning up, and whether that should be an action of fight or flight. This "debate" takes place between two brothers who are both natural born leaders and it runs the course of the movie. Due to the fact that this is a new movie, I'll stop the connection here so as not to spoil it for you, although I do strongly suggest that you see it at some point.

Anyways, I've been weighing this fight or flight thing for a few days now; and by the definition of manliness that I provided in my previous post, I have found 'flight' to be the 'manlier' choice in the situation presented in Defiance. This is because the choice to fight would have been made in order to protect pride and honor in a self-serving manner. Flight on the other hand would do the most good for others. Now, I do not advocate flight in every situation. The choice should be made by answering the question "Which will benefit the community the most, fight or flight?"