Narrative Warfare: You Can't Moralize Predators Away

It can't be explained any plainer.

You're going to hear gainsaying.

The problem is that you can't argue against this without exposing presumptions that negate the gainsaying assertion. "The enemy gets a vote" is how to summarize counterpunching against gainsaying; when the other party, by word or by deed, says (and votes, literally and otherwise) "Fuck no I'm not part of you and I will treat you accordingly."

That's the killshot.

They do not agree that they are part of you. They see you as Other, as Them, not as Us. They treat you accordingly; you are a target to be cheated, abused, and killed because you are not Us- you are not human. You are Fair Game.

That is why you cannot extend moral behavior to those who prey upon you, and thus why Friend/Enemy Distinction trump all other rubricks. You can cordial to neutrals, but you cannot abide predation upon you and yours for that just invites more of the same- both in severity and in frequency.

The Thralls of Empire, regardless of which faction they serve--Globohomo, Neo-Tsar, Red Dynasty--are all united in seeing you as not part of Us; you are Them, and that's why you must oppose them despite their claims of legitimacy over you. Enough of you have. That is why Empire is falling.