I agree to some extent... I think a good analogy would be a mountain climber sliding down a snowy face toward a cliff. The climber could just lay back and fall off the cliff and most likely die or, at minimum, be way farther down the mountain and have a lot more ground to cover to catch up and get back to the top of the mountain.

On the other hand... he could use some of his tools (pick ax and cramp-ons (sp?)) to slow his slide and possibly stop it short of falling off the cliff.

The right answer depends on whether or not the climber was on the right path to begin with... if he's on the wrong path to the top and the entrance to that path is off the side of the cliff... well then he needs to fall backwards to move forward in the right direction.

If he's on the correct path then falling all the way down is useless if he can use some of his tools to prevent it.