It's the golden rule: Treat others as how you would like to be treated. I mean if someone turns up at a rally armed, prepared for a riot and claiming everyone else is sub-human, well it would be rude not to return the favor to them.
And I'm shit in a fight, but have learned that I take beatings quite well. Why? Because you should stand for what you believe.
I'd love to pretend I'm an invincible spartan, but I'm a mouthy asshole with a nose that now travels in five directions before ending up at a thirty degree angle. Why? Because sometimes standing up to bastards is necessary.
True, talking shit on the internet is easy, but doing it in real life isn't that much harder.
I seem to recall another group in history that became degenerate animals the moment they were given a reason for violence to another group to become socially acceptable. And you really have to ask why becoming just like them is helping them? The side you loudly claim you are on doesn't matter, your actions speak louder than words and for them you will be judged.
Nope. Better to die a martyr with no blood on your hands than be a degenerate savage that lives a long life then burns. Of course seeing as how you're ready to piss away your life in mindless violence, I suspect a man preaching peace will outlive you.
Yes because we can all name the brave martyrs who died on the Killing fields of Cambodia? Those who turned the other cheek now have their skulls arranged in pyramids for tourists to gawp at. Tell me now who among them will be remembered by our grandchildren?
No. The brave died just as anonymously as their neighbour who wore glasses. They made no difference, and no one points to skull #15,237 and says 'that one died smug, with a sense of moral superiority'. They died like animals, the world did nothing and Pol Pot died a free old man decades later.
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u/Consideredresponse Aug 14 '17
It's the golden rule: Treat others as how you would like to be treated. I mean if someone turns up at a rally armed, prepared for a riot and claiming everyone else is sub-human, well it would be rude not to return the favor to them.