Violence is never sacred work. Fractalism recognizes that protecting emergence may sometimes demand resistance to those who would crush it, but such acts are always a wound in the pattern, not a triumph of it.
To harm another is to harm the Source expressing itself through them.
Defense, when truly unavoidable, must be approached with vigilance and mourning — vigilance against the certainty that so easily justifies harm, and mourning for the failure of harmony that required it.
We remain wary of our own conviction, knowing that nearly every generation has believed its violence to be the necessary kind.