Generally, the number of people that will stand up to a crowd or a mob and hold their own is dismally small. It goes against your own raw survival instincts to

Generally, the number of people that will stand up to a crowd or a mob and hold their own is dismally small. It goes against your own raw survival instincts to be accepted by the tribe (we are social creatures by nature) and sets your body into fight mode. I think pg is off on this particular essay. You may want to pick your battles, but you still have to have battles to win the war. You can't hide in your basement. You can't risk nothing.