You made the incorrect assumption either that having the "power to revoke" means the necessity to exercise that power, and/or that revoking feelings means inact

You made the incorrect assumption either that having the "power to revoke" means the necessity to exercise that power, and/or that revoking feelings means inaction on all events leading to them. The advice says nothing about how the downtrodden should act about their situation of downtroddeness. Focusing and making assumptions on the unfairness of the statement is a bit of victim mentality. In fact, your statement reminds me of an article I read somewhere. I think it was titled "Feeling like a victim is a perfectly disastrous way to go through life"