I suggest a different interpretation that doesn't make you a hypocrite and allows you a clear conscience.
Treat your enemy as they would treat you. If your ideological enemy abandons fairness, integrity, honesty, or humanity in how they treat you, then they also abandon any expectation of being treated with those principles when roles are reversed. You can't honour the dishonourable. Maintain your principles for dealing with the intellectually honest and sincere.
You misunderstood. If that's how the left behaves -- no bad actions, just bad actors -- then they must accept their own behaviour, so you are also free to behave like they do. That means you can use leftist tactics while not compromising your principles even if your principles generally preclude leftist tactics.
If you want to box, if you want rules to fight under, get into the ring.
Otherwise, gloves off and fight. Fight like the only way out is one person walking away and the other going to the hospital or the morgue ... because they wish all that and worse upon you.
I suggest a different interpretation that doesn't make you a hypocrite and allows you a clear conscience.
Treat your enemy as they would treat you. If your ideological enemy abandons fairness, integrity, honesty, or humanity in how they treat you, then they also abandon any expectation of being treated with those principles when roles are reversed. You can't honour the dishonourable. Maintain your principles for dealing with the intellectually honest and sincere.
Fuck that.
The least tolerant faction wins.
The left operates by "no bad tactics, only bad targets."
And they win.
Do you want to win?
You misunderstood. If that's how the left behaves -- no bad actions, just bad actors -- then they must accept their own behaviour, so you are also free to behave like they do. That means you can use leftist tactics while not compromising your principles even if your principles generally preclude leftist tactics.
Fuck principles. Win.
If you want to box, if you want rules to fight under, get into the ring.
Otherwise, gloves off and fight. Fight like the only way out is one person walking away and the other going to the hospital or the morgue ... because they wish all that and worse upon you.
And they think it's funny.
Sure pal.