He ran and hid where he thought no one would find him.
That's not sacrificing. He didn't fight back, because he knew he couldn't win.
He didn't restore peace. He murdered half of the sentient beings in the universe and yet there was still all the problems there were before.
You can't kill your way to a better world. It has been tried for thousands of years and it has never worked. It has always created as much or more "bad" than any "good" that has come from it.
Back to football talk for me.