Seeing a lot of "no-one holds a principled anti-riot position" and "everybody's in favor of riots under the right circumstances" going around recently.

Gentles all, let me assure you that should you manage to throw a riot in favor of everything I love and against everything I despise, I will _still_ demand that you all be bayoneted.

As, indeed, a matter of principle.

(I am so _very_ done with "we must destroy civilization in order to save it"-shaped ideas.)