@FoxesInLove Clearly, the answer to the question of what one really wants is to quote Vir from Babylon 5:
"I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations, that some favours come with too high a price. I want to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave, like this. Can you and your associates arrange that for me?"
One might have to carefully judge where such an answer is socially acceptable, though.