I'm a hard-line pacifist. Not because I feel compelled by any authority, but because every time in my life that I've done violence to someone, no matter how well deserved, I felt like a total piece of shit afterward. It has driven me to find new philosophies, new ways of living, to understand why I feel this way and how I can avoid hurting people. Even if it means I have to eat shit sometimes.

I'd like to think there's a way for good people to live free without violence, but I don't think the reality of the situation will permit it. I may not be cut out for violence, and I'd rather not see it come to that, but I also won't stand in the way if other victims of the oppressive system we live under rise up in violent revolt. It would only be the natural consequences of what the elites have done, and it'd be their problem to handle.