[LadyCailin]

I’d be curious to hear your opinion on things like Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech then. I’m not defending the violence in this case, to be sure, but like, in general, I disagree that violence is always the irrational choice.

[ifwinterco]

My point is violence can be rational but you should at least attempt to get away with it, so you can carry on afterwards.

It's hard to effect any sort of change from a prison cell, violent or otherwise, so it's irrational to deliberately get yourself locked up if your aim is to change things

[timmytokyo]

Perhaps he felt a jail cell would offer him a better life than what he was getting in society.