There are also potential consequences to your goal, not just personal consequences. If your goal is to make people consider your position, or reckon with how common unhappiness around a given issue is, making yourself seem hostile or unjust is counterproductive. It makes it too easy for people to dismiss you and carry on with their notion that the state is just.
But ultimately it depends on your specific goal. If your goal is to interrupt, disrupt, or impair something, then it may not matter. Its just a question of what the right tool is for the moment.
Are you trying to address the nation, or be dirt in the cogs? Are you hoping to change sentiments, win hearts and minds, or are you hoping to materially impact what’s happening? I think both are pretty important but what’s effective for one is not neccisarily for the other, and it ought to be intentional when people pursue which goal.
There are also potential consequences to your goal, not just personal consequences. If your goal is to make people consider your position, or reckon with how common unhappiness around a given issue is, making yourself seem hostile or unjust is counterproductive. It makes it too easy for people to dismiss you and carry on with their notion that the state is just.
But ultimately it depends on your specific goal. If your goal is to interrupt, disrupt, or impair something, then it may not matter. Its just a question of what the right tool is for the moment.
Are you trying to address the nation, or be dirt in the cogs? Are you hoping to change sentiments, win hearts and minds, or are you hoping to materially impact what’s happening? I think both are pretty important but what’s effective for one is not neccisarily for the other, and it ought to be intentional when people pursue which goal.