[His voice drops, what one would expect of a teacher trying something new to get a point across. Factual and slightly tired.]

It's not that bowing and scraping and submitting is ugly. It's that bowing and scraping and submitting is pointless. These are the actions of a group who knows what it's doing. What it's plans are.

[He pauses to let that sink in.]

Once people have made up their minds enough to enact something like this...begging, essentially what you suggest, changes nothing. They already know what they are going to do. You can accept that. Or you can live in delusion and be shocked and dismayed when they prove it. I'm in the first category as I can't afford to be in the second.