There was once a little boy who was always picked on by bullies. One day, he decided he’d had enough, so he started going to the gym and working out. The bullies laughed at first, but then they started to notice that when they tried to pick on him, he hit back, and it was starting to hurt. So, finally, they decided to bully someone else.

Once safe, the little boy was listening to a psychiatrist who told him he was doing nothing but contributing to world anger by hitting back; that he would be much better off to not hit back. That defensive violence is the same as offensive violence. “Didn’t Jesus say someplace to love your enemies,” the psychiatrist asked? “Doesn’t that mean to promote social justice?” So the little boy decided he was, after all, doing wrong.

He stopped going to the gym. He spent his money on speech lessons instead, so he could speak quite eloquently and forcefully.

The next time the bullies came around he said, “hey, guys, you’re contributing to world anger with all this bullying, you’re making the world warmer, destroying the environment, and mocking social justice, so stop it.” Then he proceeded to give them a long, eloquent speech about social justice.

The bullies laughed. And beat him up.