If you tolerate getting punched in the face, you deserve to get punched in the face.
That puts the ends before the means.
The person punching, can't know that, whether the people being attacked will attack back.
Thats the same justification that terrorists use.
"We did it because they deserved it."
"yes but why did they deserve it?"
"because we did it to them."
Its no justification at all. It's madness.
If it were a justification, then by definition, it would be the same as the attacker saying to their victims "I am doing this because you have committed the crime of being passive. I am doing it to make you stronger. If you won't defend yourself, then you get punished."
What I'm driving at is, you're suggesting its some sort of law. Law of nature, yeah, but not a moral law.
It's not really a justification at all, its a post-attack rationalization.
And the people that support it are bandits that pray on the innocent.
The people that support it should be destroyed.
A just society takes the men who believe in strength, disadvantages the promotion of weakness, and simultaneously redirects the strong into defense of the less strong.
What you get is a caste system. What you get from that is meritocracy.
What we see here, like under communism, is the degenerate variety of it.
It is one thing to say "every man for himself."
it is another thing to say "every man for himself, but if you defend yourself against others, YOU are a criminal."
Either we must have true, and just, and complete LAW, or no law, except natures law, the law of the fist and the gun. And no inbetween.
And then of course, it is another thing to live in this inbetween state, where "some animals are more equal than others", and to be subject to that double-standard, and worse, to defend it.
Under the current circumstances you are not defending YOUR right to live as "every man for himself", and "might makes right".
You are defending their right to impose that on you, without the ability to retaliate in kind without law being imposed.
You can stand aside and allow the double standard, or you can stand against it. The one enables them, the other demoralizes their supporters by insisting they play by their own rules. Only the weak give up the high ground when the high ground is, by your own standard, all they have.
The strong absolutely can and do, use every advantage they have, and force every disadvantage the opponent has.
Fire fights fire. Thats nature.
If you have the high ground, use it, even if you don't believe in it.
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