If people would think badly upon my community for acting righteously then I welcome their transient disdain as proof that I am saying something worth saying.
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Obviously the idea is not to never risk making enemies, but the future is to some extent a hostage negotiation, and, airy rhetoric aside, it’s a bad idea to insult a hostage taker’s mother, causing him to murder lots of hostages, even if she’s genuinely a bad person who deserves to be called out.
If people would think badly upon my community for acting righteously then I welcome their transient disdain as proof that I am saying something worth saying.
Obviously the idea is not to never risk making enemies, but the future is to some extent a hostage negotiation, and, airy rhetoric aside, it’s a bad idea to insult a hostage taker’s mother, causing him to murder lots of hostages, even if she’s genuinely a bad person who deserves to be called out.