His ideas? He seems to be proud to have none of his own, it's all written there. He just made a choice, 's all.Obviously he believes in turning the other cheek as well.
You say you try not to hurt others... perhaps you aren't as overtly spiteful as the bovver boys, but you're legitimising their poor behavior by responding and giving them cues. Surely nobody believes that addressing people in that fashion will change minds, or achieve anything apart from leaving a public record of their own cruel behavior?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
