What would ‘spiritual’ people do?

My knowledge of the Phra Dhammachayo case is very limited and I am not competent to pass judgement on it. But I do feel compelled to question Tulsathit Taptim’s assertion that “men of genuine spirituality don’t run away; they face the fire”.
In fact, worldly people like Khun Tulsathit and myself have no idea what people “of genuine spirituality” would do in any given situation.
It is recorded of the great Indian reformer-monk Swami Vivekananda that once, when he was being chased by a large troop of vicious monkeys, he heeded the advice of a bystander to “face the brutes”. But when a later sage, Sri Ramana Maharshi, had to put up with women quarrelling in his kitchen, he just quietly withdrew.
The moral of this comparison is not that a holy man has more to fear from quarrelling women than from a troop of vicious monkeys. It is that “genuinely spiritual” people respond in different ways to different situations, and it is presumptuous for worldlings like us to predict what they might do. 
Ye Olde Pedant