Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
Therefore, whoever wishes for peace, let him prepare for war.
Vegetius in De Re Militari
You who espouses peace, I ask you, what will you do when the mongrel horde bears down upon you?
Will you allow yourself to be killed? You will be a dead monument to idealism. And what is dead is lost to the sands of time forever. The whole of your biological and memetic being will cease. Your ideals will die with you.
The barbarian will have won and he who is the victor writes history.
But if you fight and win, your beliefs may spread as seeds soar atop the air currents. Is it such a crime to apply warmth to the brittle wax?
But if you fight and win, resolution through peaceful means is fallacious to begin with. You have proven yourself wrong.
What is worse? To be righteously decaying? Or to live in contradiction?
tl;dr Fuck rigid mentalities. Enjoy your idealism. It'll make my aim all the surer.