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I will stand strong to defend people even if I don't agree with them.

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

People said, That's great for your career, but what have you done? I kept feeling I had to defend myself.

Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.

I'm not against anybody.

Like a good general, I treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.