Pretending the violence we've witnessed has been entirely indiscriminate not targeted at political opponents, or shouting at strawmen that any violence, no matter how measured, makes you no better than an animal is exactly burying your head in the sand and ignoring realpolitik.

It's not that you need to tell me anything, you should just stop telling yourself that fairytales are real before you drag everyone around down with you. Nobody is saying you have to give up all your principles, that's just the sand in your ears speaking, just to examine what parameters within those principles still let you to actually win in the real world.

Ignoring all that and shirking the idea of balancing complex moral calculus so you can live in a world of simplistic all or nothing ultimatums that will never be "all" so are inevitably just chosimg "nothing, but more smug" is just childish.

Pretending the violence we've witnessed has been entirely indiscriminate not targeted at political opponents, or shouting at strawmen that any violence, no matter how measured, makes you no better than an animal is exactly burying your head in the sand and ignoring realpolitik.

It's not that you need to tell me anything, you should just stop telling yourself that fairytales are real before you drag everyone around down with you. Nobody is saying you have to give up all your principles, that's just the sand in your ears speaking, just to examine what parameters within those principles still let you to actually win in the real world.

Ignoring all that and shirking the idea of balancing complex moral calculus so you can live in a world of simplistic all or nothing ultimatums that will never be "all" so are inevitably just chosimg "nothing, butore smug" is just childish.