I liked your video, but even though there is a ton of hypocrisy oozing out of folk like that, I don't think that has bearing n the concept of meaning.
AntiFa certainly thought what they were doing was "meaningful" so I dissagree
When would you say that cruelty was better than kindness?
Example 1:
in cases where someone is attacking you for ideological reasons, such as AntiFa. If one of those people who got swarmed and beaten to the ground had instead gouged the eyes and broken one or two of the arms of an AntiFa attacker the rest would've likely thought twice about such an assault. Members of AntiFa had historically and repeatedly shown very high levels of cowardice, singling out people and only attacking in a large swarm when they felt safe to do so. Such a display of power and willingness to use it would've likely made a group scatter, saving not just the defender but those around them. The attackers might think twice about such a tactic again, fearing that the next lone person they single out might be capable of the same defense. Making subsequent attacks less likely and potentially not as damaging. Some individual member may be galvanized by such a display instead, but defening from one or two unarmed attackers is far safer than one or two dozen. Furthermore, AntiFa had publicly set up training halls which they openly stated existed to train people to fight republicans. AntiFa had already killed and maimed people by the time they had announced such training halls.
Appropriate action in that case would've been to storm such a facility and wipe out all attendees the same way one would wipe out a military base of a nation one was at war with. Given that "war" was the stance AntiFa had publicly declared itself to have at the time. Had such measures been taken the "protest" in the video may not have happened at all and innocent people who wanted nothing to do with the situation may not have been harmed.
::EDIT:: Obviously the situation could've also be handled much, much earlier befoer it got to that point in a much less violent way. But in my example I'musing a "last straw" scenario. And those are just my personal opinions on it.
Example 2:
Historically I've been told of an event in Darwin Australia in the 70's or 80's involving a gang known as the "Caz Boys"
They were known for ambushing people and beating them to a pulp. Baiting cars and the like to draw people in. The police weren't really doing enough to help, and eventually the fathers of all the victimized sons and daughters had enough one day. They grabbed bats, pipes, whatever they had, got in their cars, drove to the neighborhood everyone knew the Caz Boys were operating from an beat the ever loving shit out of them. The ambushes stopped occurring. I'm told the Caz Boys still exist but their numbers and antics have never reached the levels they did during that period.
Example 3:
An artist friend of mine who was sick and tired of people stealing original art from others, recolouring it a little, then claiming it to be their own original work. People tried to explain to the thieves that stealing was wrong but unsurprisingly words had no effect. So my friend, who is an actually skilled artist, made a fake account, stole the stolen artwork, recoloured it themselves but with massive skill imrovements, gave them goofy lipstick and eyeliner, then posted it as the fake accounts work. The thieves would come to them all furious that they're not allowed to do that and it's stealing. My friend parroted the thieves own logic back at them, acting as if they were completely unaware that they were doing anything wrong the same way the theives originally did. Some of the theives learned their lesson and understood that what they were doing was indeed stealing and how it made people feel and stopped stealing.
Some bleeding hearts came to my friend and tried to morally bertate her for her actions. Stating things like "two wrongs don't make a right!" and "you sunk to their level!"
My friend replied "I made them stop, what have
you accomplished?" To which the bleeding hearts had no reply. The fake account gained a following for awhile with people being inspired by its actions until my friend stopped bothering with teaching lessons.
For my own personal experience with dealing with the spirit world I could give many stories although I'm not entirely comfortable doing so. But the general theme is that if I had not been as brutal as I had been I would be dead right now, period. Sometimes sticking heads on pikes and lining your terittory with them as a reminder of what will happen to someone if they try to attack is the only diplomatic solution left. When all words have failed, when someone deems you the "enemy" and that they have a righteous moral duty to kill you, the only language left that they speak or hear is power.