The fairy tales known to us today advocate fighting evil, while the originals just as often advocate refusing to fight, running away, or doing nothing.
Some policemen are refusing to fight.
Troops are deserting and often refusing to fight their "Muslim brothers".
There were scattered reports of police officers surrendering, or refusing to fight.
He was the lamb, representing the meek of the earth, weak, poor and refusing to fight.
The men in the pit have been given no real choice: refusing to fight is generally punished by death.
One of the seriously wounded had been shot in the head by his officer for refusing to fight.
It also explores the peevishness of the Greeks, whose mighty warrior Achilles is refusing to fight because he feels slighted.
On Wednesday 54 Nigerian soldiers were sentenced to death by firing squad for refusing to fight Boko Haram.
Then, on Friday, an Iranian judoka, Arash Miresmaeili, pulled out of the tournament, refusing to fight Ehud Vaks of Israel.
In 1944, after refusing to fight in World War Two, he had been jailed as a conscientious objector.
