@Popehat he's not wrong that shouting them down gets turned around on them, but he doesn't seem to take into account that killing them might get the same or worse reaction.

But maybe it's true that if to be a schill, one must put their life on the line, they might have second thoughts about it.

The unfortunate truth is violence still exists even as we attempt to illegalize its more visceral forms. War just hides deeper and deeper in complexity, it never goes away. It's too useful and effective to go away. It becomes financial, ideological, conceptual. the slow creep of economic war, financial war, information war, cyber war. They all kill the same.

I believe our move towards quieting strong words in general is a retreat from visceral war deeper into conceptual warfare. Our nature ain't going anywhere. It's just hiding now.