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[–] lemon11 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Yes, that's the paradox: the flawed human being is the creator and victim of all its good and bad. Speaking in generalities, of course. But we have other tools like reason at our disposal, and with those we can discriminate and guide each other. It's an age-old problem, we're just living through accelerated industrial-information times.

I deal with it by having realized that the government does not represent me, reflect any part of me, or act friendly to me. Therefore becoming angry by things like this military policy only serves to justify the power they think they have over me.

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[–] SJWsRuinedIt 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

In other terms the villain and hero in my reality is myself and whatever I put focus on?

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[–] lemon11 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Not exactly (e.g., you can be hurt by what you don't see). But you can't eliminate villains as a class. They don't look different from us. They come from us. It's all just people being people. The purpose of that facility to reason is to be able to discriminate villain from hero, and the purpose of the facility of free will is to be able to choose those paths oneself. You will know them by their fruits.

An important use of these facilities is to choose your enemy, and to choose the method of fighting back. Peaceful resistance is effective for a loyal, principled enemy, for example. I believe the American Left has shown they wouldn't count as loyal or principled, because they wage wars on a daily basis with and against words, as the OP's story demonstrates.