I mean, I do think actually acting on that statement is foolish… but it doesn’t mean they never made the statement. Just because we believe something to go against the common good doesn’t mean people of generally good will don’t take those actions for what they believe to be good reasons.

The situations sucks. It has sucked for a long time. And it’s not going to get better quickly or easily. Unfortunately refusing to act in the main way you can to make that difference makes it that much harder and take that much more time.