Sure, be a moron. Give them what they want. The state loves when you do violence against it. It's the best thing every for the state. Because your violence won't stop them and won't help anything, but being able to point at you means that they can keep portraying themselves as the good guys to the masses they don't want waking up. That's why nonviolent protests work: they shock the conscience out of complacency. The more non violent they are, the better. The more violence done to them, the better.
You'd be spitting on people who are smartly trying to martyr themselves because of a stupid hero complex.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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