Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.

It is also aimed at experienced human rights activists who are looking for a handy collection of facts to use in any confrontations online – or in real life.

I take it, though,...Given the utter lack of change in your demeanor and nearly radiating I-just-slaughtered-a -bunch-of-infant-forest-animals guilt coming from your general direction...The exchange with your female friend went something a trifle short of fantastic.

If you couldn't sense heat, you'd not be alive. And if that heat never grew uncomfortable, you would never move. And if you were stagnant—unchallenged by unpredictable flares—you would never grow capable of shielding yourself from harsher flames. So yes, life was meant to drag you straight through the fire.

If not me then who? Confront evil!

It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.