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Removing the possibility of negotiation only galvanizes someone's will to fight back. Never put an enemy in a fight-or-die situation, because as bloodthirsty and vicious as they are now, they can get a lot worse.
Keeping the possibility of negotiation open reduces an enemy's will to fight.