Claiming the "moral high ground" has helped lots of people lose lots of conflicts. It's not always the right move.
Agreed. Detailing a multiplicative factor of otherwise productive citizens to service an unproductive menace to society is how civilizations fall.
It's not moral fortitude.
It's moral degeneracy.
It doesn't cost a lot to warehouse people in small rooms. In fact it costs a lot less than the financial damage that letting them run wild has done so far. Besides, it creates jobs for people in that industry.
That's the broken window theory; it's fallacious, as dedicating a segment of the economy for the unproductive not a weighted trade-off of pros and cons, but a strategy to mitigate cons. It's a matter of damage-control. And in a more sensible era, this evil would have been resolved by fistfights, lynching, and warfare, not long-form legalese and a billion dollar LEO and Courtsystem.
In this day-and-age, these misanthropes have ample opportunity to take a number of people with them once they self-destruct, be it a defamation case like Vic's or their "climate change" shenanigans which are even more destructive to people's livelihoods.
But every once in a while, one of these idiots
does us a favor - by setting himself on fire.* - "Pass the marshmallows, and let him burn".
I'm not sure what his original plan was, but he should be ridiculed, not mourned. He reminds me of those terrorist bombers who accidentally detonate and prematurely kill themselves, their families, and their trainees. I had no problem smiling when one bomber accidentally killed his children and wife in one blast - and weak-minded people need to stop hounding vets who've decided to take out bombers' families, as the "civilian immunity" and payment to the bomber's family is one of the reasons setting bombs in marketplaces and polling stations is economically viable.
The dirty little secret is that sanctioning and killing family members is an effective method of deterring domestic terrorists.
God have mercy on their souls, now that they're all safely dead.
*Burnt flesh smells like bacon, and more than a few veterans have trouble eating bacon after associating the smell with the experience. It's kind of a rite of passage to learn to eat it again.