Honorable or foolish?

The difficult questions in life don't have universal answers. The same is true of the difficult questions in poker :-) Last night, I bubbled the final tournament I entered. The way I played my final hand can be considered either honorable or foolish, depending on how you look at it. I was in the big blind, with 5,025 chips. The blinds were 500 and 1,000 at that point. I had the third shortest stack at my table; there were 17 players left in the tournament, and 15 places were paid. I was dealt ATo (ace ten offsuit). There was a good chance I would min cash if I folded that hand and every other hand for the next orbit; there was also a chance I could win the hand if I stayed in it. I didn't feel like being a wimp, so I stayed in the hand. I hit the rail when I got beaten by a player with AJo (ace jack offsuit). Was my play honorable or foolish? There's no right answer. I prefer to think I was honorably foolish :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT   8-Game  45000  5000       6    31      81   18    33        0
MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9     6      98   27    71        0
MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    73      63   15    16        0

delta: $-400,000
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $34,422,500
2019 balance: $491,000
balance: $47,075,260