If you get in a verbal argument with someone then that doesn't suddenly open things up to physical violence, and if they take the first punch then it makes them look bad and makes us look good, which is exactly what has just happened.
Ask the South how fighting a moral war worked out for them.
Spoilers: The Yankees wrote them as evil racists who wanted to keep slavery, while Lincoln, who loved the UNITED States and only wanted to keep it together, wept at his desk when the Confederates took Fort Sumpter.
Wars are won when one side kills so many of the other side and destroys so much of their stuff that they can't resist anymore, and then the winner gets to decide who looks good in retrospect.
I'm sorry but you are a fucking idiot if you think looking good means anything in winning wars for survival. You're the kind of guy who is going to try to hold his chin high and tell himself "at least I didn't compromise my principles" while your enemy slips the blindfold down.
Looking good is quite literally the entire war. It's a war being fought through media and appearances. If you start LARPing as a real-life fascist then you will get shut down immediately and lose all support. It's not even just a matter of morals, but also simple practicality and effectiveness.
If you get in a verbal argument with someone then that doesn't suddenly open things up to physical violence, and if they take the first punch then it makes them look bad and makes us look good, which is exactly what has just happened.
Ask the South how fighting a moral war worked out for them.
Spoilers: The Yankees wrote them as evil racists who wanted to keep slavery, while Lincoln, who loved the UNITED States and only wanted to keep it together, wept at his desk when the Confederates took Fort Sumpter.
The outcome of the Civil War actually proves my point. I'm not exactly sure what alternative outcome you think could have occurred there.
Wars are won when one side kills so many of the other side and destroys so much of their stuff that they can't resist anymore, and then the winner gets to decide who looks good in retrospect.
John Wilkes Booth ended the tyrant, not a bunch of optics cucks who VOTED HARDER.
And then Lincoln became a martyr, blacks ended up remaining in America and gaining citizenship, and the South was devastated by carpetbaggers.
I'm sorry but you are a fucking idiot if you think looking good means anything in winning wars for survival. You're the kind of guy who is going to try to hold his chin high and tell himself "at least I didn't compromise my principles" while your enemy slips the blindfold down.
Looking good is quite literally the entire war. It's a war being fought through media and appearances. If you start LARPing as a real-life fascist then you will get shut down immediately and lose all support. It's not even just a matter of morals, but also simple practicality and effectiveness.