The Prerogative to Act

In a battle between the aggressive and the peaceful, the aggressive wins,

In a competition between the competitive and the collaborative, the competitive wins,

In an argument between the loud and the quiet, the loud wins,

In a debate between the rhetoric and the logical, the rhetoric wins.

Value judgments are only relevant within the confines of a wise mind,

What happens outside has no obligation to match what happens within,

Unless the wise mind acts.