A Call for Restraint: Comparing Stones and Batons

As long as there’s any way out,

you and I are religiously obliged not to hit anyone.

I repeat, as long as there’s any way. We just give warnings,

we have three hundred of them.

Now if I put on this mask- helmet,

it’s fine if three stones hit this.

But if a single stone hits any one of you, you’ll be destroyed.

Do not think we’re like you. You have uniforms, you have gear, you have shields,

you have helmets,

if ten bricks hit this poor guy, nothing happens to him.

But if you hit anyone once with a baton, their arm is broken.

As long as there’s any way out, for God’s sake do not hit. All right? Morally,

religiously, socially, legally.