Dilemma of the day: how not be eaten in a locked cave.

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On the one hand:

Killing a deadly sleeping enemy who intends to eat you and your men, one by one or two by two: how could that be a wrong move?

On the other hand:

But in this case it is. Odysseus stops, thinks, and after hours of brooding devises a multipart plan based on what lies at hand in the cave.

--- Brian Boyd, ibid