We are despised because we are weak.
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I don't care about warranted or morally justified. I only care about prospects of success. If in any given case, a given response makes things better, then it's good. Otherwise, it is not. It's difficult to predict, of course.
We're not going to end up in gulags. Modern totalitarianism is different from the crude variant of the last century. Maybe people in 100 years will wonder why Hitler and Stalin fought one another, since both of them were such benign characters compared with the rulers of then.
Because dying in open air prisons is so much better, right? Your outlook on all of this stuff ends in defeat and you seem to be oblivious or completely ok with it and I can't tell which scenario is more distressing.
If you had actually read until the end, you'd know what I am actually arguing. But it's foolish to expect the future to exactly mirror the past. By claiming that it's going to be gulags, you're going to ignore everything that is not that or similar, but very troubling at all.
And you suppose that your outlook is not going to end in defeat? And as if I can do anything about it. I can only do my best, which is not much. All waves of insanity eventually blow over, often after doing an enormous amount of damage. In the meantime, we do what we can.
I don't want to take the approach of "Oh we'll just wait for the Soviet Union to fall apart because it has to eventually". I'd rather find a more active approach to dismantling it so that the rest of my life doesn't have to consist of living in fear of the commissars catching wind of what I think.
Evil flourishes when good men do nothing. I don't want to sit here and do nothing. You advocate against doing things.
Great. Once you find me a way, do tell me.
No, I advocate against doing ineffective things that are counterproductive. Doing stupid things makes things worse and not better.