[Dragaera] Vlad's passivity

[Philip Hart]

On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Maximilian Wilson wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Mark Mandel <cracksandshards at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That reminds me of his comment to, I think it's Kiera in _Athyra_ -- when
>> he's on the run from the Org., anyway, and she comments that they could
>> probably trace him by sales of garlic. To which he replies that he'd rather
>> die than go without garlic.
>
> Of course, it's not totally frivolous on Vlad's part. It's not that
> he's so addicted to garlic or Valabar's that he can't help risking his
> life and soul's life to get it--it's that, in Vlad's value-system, if
> you let people push you around and stop you from doing what you *want*
> to do you've given up your life already. [...]


This strikes me as an excellent point, esp. given the long parallel 
discussion.  But "want" doesn't seem quite right here.  I want to
say "think is important", which risks tautology.  What's the Textev
on this claim?  Is it all in the context of Jhereg territorial disputes?