>>Actually, as long as one can raise them self back to their naturally superior level, what’s the problem?<<
If you spend the day playing in manure you will smell like manure for the rest of the day. I prefer not to smell like manure even for a little while.
Really? How virtuous. Unfortunately virtues don’t win battles. I take it you wouldn’t have “lowered yourself” to fight the Japanese or the Nazi’s on their level as so many brave men did and return to live the balance of their lives on higher ground? Would you lower yourself to a hostile intruder’s level to defend your home and family? You wanna beat crap, you gotta get dirty. As long as you don’t stay there, you won’t become crap. If you want to stand on higher ground and let the rest of is wallow in it, fine, I suppose the battle will take that much longer. I for WON will get down-n-dirty, fight oppressive crap like this, clean up, and move forward.