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.
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.