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[Decoy of Fenris]

58. Here, let me give you a bit of a leg-up on me, for whenever we next debate.

I've no doubt you and I will be at odds many times in the future. I'm used to that though, and you seem to have a kind soul.


My point of view is that whatever I do, as an individual, does not matter unless it directly positively affects humanity in a meaningful way that will endure beyond me after I die. Every day that I wake up, I take steps to secure a legacy for myself through actions that I would qualify as meaningful and beneficial to humanity. Did I get out and protest for justice for Trayvon? Admittedly no, nor did I join the ranks of the Z squad, because that one case means nothing in my view; what -results- from that case is what is important to me. The precedent set by releasing Z upon the populace without a preponderance of evidence is disturbing to say the least, and that is why I have picked up and dusted off the old "Activist" banner and begun my own personal campaign. I see several possible negatives stemming from this result:

The deterioration of intra-human racial relations negatively affecting the whole,
A dangerous precedent of state-sponsored murder barring extraordinary proof to the contrary, and
The admittedly small chance that the government may act to restrict defensive means, AKA firearms, since they are most common.


None of these things, as either an idea or an ideal is a -good- thing in the long run, and thus I act to minimize the damage and maximize potential beneficial attributes, such as shoring up self-defense while simultaneously attempting to reform it so that it is not an open license to murder, so long as no one sees you and the state can't prove your guilt.

The long view that I hold extends beyond me, my children or my children's children, to the expansion of humanity as a race, not as individual peoples or countries. While other people fight for fleeting causes, I fight for ideas that will last millennia. Accordingly, I pick my battles rarely, and carefully.