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Most of the French would certainly beg to differ on the matter of where to draw the line in the sand. If you're waiting until you're standing in rubble on the inside of a cage with guard towers to decide it's time to act, you are not going to get very far. You may be willing to be a martyr, but lecturing everyone who isn't is not productive. You want to prevent unnecessary loss of life, focus on curing the disease, not clutching your pearls about the symptoms. Spaniards do in fact have many political and diplomatic pathways to move forward. So use them and don't worry about policing those who break ranks. You want to tell people you think violence is premature when the question is asked? That's fine, but always bring your attention and others' back to what brought someone to chose it in the first place, because no sane person chooses violence lightly and there's only so many psychopaths on Earth (and we all know which side of this they tend to fall on).
While the system functions, those who act on their own will be dealt with according to the law, as they should be. Policing the tone of those who you otherwise stand with is a distraction that only serves to divide you. You can be on the team that that chooses peace, but it is absolutely not necessary to waste your time on respectability politics. The opposition certainly ~~did~~ don't, and tying your own hands when they have already dropped the gloves serves no purpose.
This is why i also said preparing for violent struggle is not the same as actively pouring oil into the fire. There's nothing wrong with preparing for the worst. But advocating (NOT preparing!) for violence when so many paths are still open is begging for unneeded casualities on both sides. This has nothing to do with tying your own hands, it has to do with how humane you want to be. Do you want to be as inhumane an CEO deciding to raise rents beyond whats reasonable? If you do not care about loss of life or limb - go ahead! and fuck you all the same, just as they can get fucked, because they left they humanity behind, and you did just the same.
I ultimately think your heart is in the right place, but your focus is misguided. It's not pouring oil on the fire to recenter the conversation around the issue that is fuelling the rage. You're not going to find much success appealing to the better angels of the corpos. They've made their decision. I don't want to see anyone hurt, but the natural consequences of their inhumanity, is retribution in kind. Protecting them from the consequences of their own actions is as good as permission to escalate. I will mourn for those who are hurt in the crossfire, but they need to know where this ends and there's no clearer way to remind them the cost of playing with fire than to let them get burned. I will not encourage violence, and I will continue to work to fix the problem by advocating for reasonable housing accommodations. But I'm not going to restrain those who have been pushed past their limits. The rights of free men and women are paid for in blood, and they always have been. I don't have to like it. But not liking the price, doesn't mean it doesn't have to be paid.
When I was a boy, my grandfather taught me to hunt. When I took my first buck, there were tears streaming down my face. After the buck was dead, my grandfather didn't yell at me for crying, he knelt down with me and he said a prayer of thanksgiving over it. He didn't tell me to "man up and get over it", he told me to never get comfortable with taking a life, any life. It might be necessary, that buck fed our family for months, at a time when meat from the grocer would have been too much of a luxury. But you should never let yourself get numb to what it cost, either the deer, or you. I don't believe in gods or bibles these days. I still say a prayer after every kill, and it still hurts.
I won't tell you to numb yourself to the cost. I won't ask you to cheer for blood. I will ask you to look away and keep your eye on doing whatever you are able to make sure no one ever feels their only path forward is violence again. Understand what brought them to that point, cure the disease and let the symptoms run their course. Symptoms aren't directly caused by the disease. They're the body's natural defences. Sometimes they will get carried away and you need to rein them in, but they serve a purpose.
Recentering has nothing do with violence per se, and i do not think appealing to corpos is going to change things by itself. But we have civil institutions in Europe that can be an vent for all of this aggression without causing bodily harm. I believe that democracy can enact meaningful change without physically harming people.
I have never killed an animal larger than a fly, and i would never do that outside of a fight to the death, because i realized the sanctity of life. Nothing can give it back, and nothing can be gained by senselessly spilling blood. I am also an atheist - religion is a socially accepted delusion for me, and should be treated like any mental illness to release humanity from this cycle of insanity society has been caught in thousands of years ago.
I am sorry that you were indoctrinated to make it ok to kill random animals for your gain.
And how well are those working right now? How's the resistance to spiralling authoritarianism going in France, in Germany, in most European countries? How are your institutional outlets holding up to Russian and American propaganda? Because I know here in Canada it sure isn't sunshine and roses. Sometimes you have to remind the right wing that the system protects them, as much as it protects us so they quit undermining it.
Not the point, but unless you're a vegan, I'm just more honest about it. Also, the ritual isn't about faith, it's a frame of mind. The point of the story was that there is a whole world of difference between not caring about life, and accepting that life is messy and sometimes ugly and choosing to do the least harm for the greatest good is the kindest choice you can make.
My general point was that standing back and letting a little selective violence leak through can be enough to remind everyone what the stakes are, and can prevent a lot more violence down the road. Demonstrating that you aren't so lost in bureaucracy that you've forgotten how to hit back quells a lot of ambitions and saves lives in the long run.