The Return of The Exiles

Aggressive personalities take pleasure in dominating, humiliating and even brutalising others. They think themselves tough. They think they can mask themselves but persecution gives them away. There is no justification for persecution on the moral grounds of maximising pleasure if the pleasure gained is not greater than the pain suffered by those persecuted. The intellectuals who have thought about it in those terms may have missed a chance to transform human nature and the opportunity to criticise the ideals implicit in that individual and social dream. It goes against the natural law and right reason. It calls for courage on the part of others. It is also an opportunity to do some good.

Perseverance requires courage. Courage requires patience and perseverance to endure for as long as it takes for virtuous acts to be performed. Grand narratives and meta-narratives like emancipation require freedom of speech, association and religion, but when another discourse becomes inflexible there follows the elimination of other narratives and voices. That would of course raise questions about social contract theory and degrees of social control. There may also be a religious deception and a pseudo-messianism where man glorifies himself. The people who have fought the good causes in the opposition of darkness to light and won should be the liberators of others.