What is worse, the 2012 doctrinal declaration or the civil oath of France

The civil oath of the French Revolution was a crime against the Church, but it was imposed by enemies from outside. Priests were threatened, hunted, and forced to choose between fidelity and death. The Church has always judged such acts as violence from the State, not a betrayal from within.

The 2012 doctrinal declaration was different in nature and worse in effect. It was not forced by persecutors. It was freely written. It accepted principles that Archbishop Lefebvre had identified as the heart of the modern apostasy. It presented the teachings of the Second Vatican Council as compatible with Tradition. It surrendered the doctrinal fight in writing. It attempted to unite the Society with the very errors it was founded to resist.

One was pressed upon priests by the agents of the Revolution.
The other was produced by superiors who knew the truth and compromised it.

The civil oath was an external attack.
The 2012 declaration was an internal collapse.

The first made martyrs.
The second made confusion.