And yet.
If you refuse, you'll go back to a sorry little life of humiliation. Even more community service as the grand reward for sticking to your principles, wardened by a Jane who gets her kicks from bouts of spontaneous inmate electrocution. If you take a knee here, you'll be under the Queen's thumb... but whatever you do next will be by your own hands. You'll be playing this game again. Back on the board.
There's no other way.