Picture a gazelle "forgiving" the lion: extinct by tomorrow. Violence is this planet's primordial language, carved into every ecosystem. Power systems know this - hence they market illusions of non-resistance: reframing submission as spiritual virtue, passivity as wisdom.

But when you crush the instinct to defend what you love, you don't become noble: you become complicit. Repressed rage doesn't vanish - it ferments in society's gut, becoming collective depression or destructive explosions.

True progress isn't denying our predatory nature, but channeling it. Using the fire within us not to burn bridges, but to illuminate injustices. Because even the sun, source of all life, is controlled nuclear violence.