When you tear out the tongues of those who speak against you, you are not proving them liars.
Instead you are proclaiming, on the altar of oppression, that you are crippled by fear of what they might say.
‘You’re not entitled your book contract,’ can quickly become ‘United doesn’t have to let you onto its planes’ ‘Marriott doesn’t have to let you stay at its hotels,’ or ‘Visa doesn’t have to let you use its cards.’
And maybe that’s the point.