You cannot accept, you cannot reject, you are tied up and gagged. If a little more pressure could be brought, you would snap one set of bindings or the other, and make a decision. I gave once, an analogy of getting a donkey across a stream. There are some new people, I will give it again.
Donkeys have instincts about water.
Can be worth your life to step in water or mud, if you are a donkey in your natural environment. They are desert evolved, predators hang around water holes in the desert, to slip or be slowed by uncertain footing can mean death. And being instinct, it works regardless of where you take the donkey. Logic means nothing. You lead the donkey up to the stream, and it balks.