being able to spot weakness
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Ours is not hard to see. There’s a big neon sign advertising it.
That is so true it is absolutely nauseating.
Just nauseating.
I have always felt, at a personal level, a public level, and a national level, that advertising weakness not only invites aggression, it makes it inevitable.
Even if you are not prepared to be strong, even the façade of being strong is better than being a slightly built eight year old effeminate looking boy with a cello case in a school full of bullies.
And as you said, we are advertising our weakness with a sign that leaves no doubt.