Fighting a no-win battle

Sometimes, you just have to, because it's the right thing to do.  Fight a battle where your efforts will not only lead to defeat, but a complete defeat, void of affecting the slightest amount of positive change.

You fight no-win battles only when something very important to you is at stake, the cause is undeniably just, and the possibility that, because of your actions, there is at least a chance that a seed will be spread in the minds of others that likely wouldn't have been there had you not acted.

When there can be no common ground, and the underground rises, the only thing you can do is confront the situation on the battle ground.  Only, with those you care about, the results will never have a victor, there will never be a clear compromise, there will always be the memory of pain afterward, the hurt, and the conflict in some ways always a little unresolved, and that at best.

But some times there is no choice but to confront, to take a stand, to force an engagement of wills, because otherwise, there can be no truth, just vitriol, a lack of empathy, emotional reactions isolated from the world that rise to destroy the bonds we all share.

This is vague, but that is because I find that I very often, in many situations, don't take the stands I should; I only make the tough choice after physical threats come to me or my friends, and otherwise, I allow the tension to rise and rise until it boils over.

But this is a more proactive me.  And perhaps, a more obnoxious, more invasive me.  But some things are worth trying to save, even if the result means I die a little to others.

Life can't always be easy.  Life can't always be free.  We have to chain ourselves sometimes, to tether ourselves to those parts of the world we hold sacrosanct.  But maybe conviction is a lie, regardless of its form, that nothing should be sacred, we should always float with the current of fate, to stay within our mot, our place in the flow.

Maybe I'm wrong.

But sometimes, it's worth making the effort to find out you're wrong, especially when you know you're right, especially when you know you're the only one who can.

Martyr complex.  I don't know how self-serving this all is.  But what can you do?  I am meta-doubting, but I do not doubt the nature of the battle, nor where I stand inside of it.

Firmly in between two circles that have lost almost all their intersection,what was a venn diagram split out until there is just a tangential point, hypothetical as the meaning of a person's inherent value, to keep them together.