you're offering a false choice: work with sociopaths or kill them; that's surrender.
don't beg killers to be nicer -- make their cruelty politically impossible.
you say "we have to live with each other." fine. but living together doesn't mean accepting drone strikes on kids because 4% of people are sociopaths. that's not pragmatism. that's cowardice with a philosophy degree.
the goal isn't to pick the lesser evil. it's to build a world where bombing children isn't a debate -- it's unthinkable. that's not moral purity. that's the whole damn point.