No, I can't hit, and I'll tell you why. I don't want to hurt anyone. I think I've done that enough in my life to be exempt from any forms of physical violence. I don't care how much I'm provoked, or how hard I'm beaten down. I will not react to violence with violence. I will hold you with my eyes and take every blow without a flinch of whimper.
Yes, maybe that does make me weak. However, I blatantly refuse to be pushed into something so brutal simply by the threat of social disgrace. I was not part of the society in which physical, emotional, sexual, and mental abuse are used to 'toughen up' young boys in order to prepare them for the world. I was not a part of the society that shuns all forms of mercy and harmony for the sake of pure animistic dominance. I regret to watch the fear in their eyes lowly diminish to angry submission into a culture that crushes the weak of mind and body. Each time they are struck, Fate whispers in their ear "I'm coming for you. Dont fall."
So no, I will not fight back. I will not encourage the demise of so many helpless youths. But please, by all means. Go ahead and destroy your brothers and sons. I'll be here to catch them when they fall. But if you dare to take one threatening step towards them after they've fallen so vulnerably to the depths.... if you try to kick them while they're down and insure they will never be okay again... if you create them in the image of yourselves...then maybe I will fight you. Life is a just enough cause to fight for.
Yes, maybe that does make me weak. However, I blatantly refuse to be pushed into something so brutal simply by the threat of social disgrace. I was not part of the society in which physical, emotional, sexual, and mental abuse are used to 'toughen up' young boys in order to prepare them for the world. I was not a part of the society that shuns all forms of mercy and harmony for the sake of pure animistic dominance. I regret to watch the fear in their eyes lowly diminish to angry submission into a culture that crushes the weak of mind and body. Each time they are struck, Fate whispers in their ear "I'm coming for you. Dont fall."
So no, I will not fight back. I will not encourage the demise of so many helpless youths. But please, by all means. Go ahead and destroy your brothers and sons. I'll be here to catch them when they fall. But if you dare to take one threatening step towards them after they've fallen so vulnerably to the depths.... if you try to kick them while they're down and insure they will never be okay again... if you create them in the image of yourselves...then maybe I will fight you. Life is a just enough cause to fight for.
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