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The grocery store on Valentine's Day Eve is hilarious.

@artemis They already are. The culture of violence and domination is an ugly one, there is a lot of infighting and lack of trust already there. A lot of it comes from a place of fear and weakness, and as the pressure builds, that is going to come out. And it does come out constantly, they hurt each other as much as they hurt us.

But if we encourage it, then that violence is still going to come out, and it's still going to hurt us even if it's partially aimed in another direction. That's how it works. This is a cultural fight, rather than encouraging violence we want to show that there is another way, that you don't have to live with fear and anger, that if you can move beyond that you can have a healthy and fulfilling life.

As things get worse the infighting on their side will grow. We want to provide an alternative that is an actual change, not allow them to continue their behavior but think it's okay because they are now on the "right" side.

@artemis We can take away their power and capacity for violence. Long term that's better than encouraging and directing the violence elsewhere. We do have avenues to make them change, they do feel social pressures, demoralizing them does actually work well. Encouraging violence is counterproductive if we want a world without violence.