Arrested Republicans are just trying to grow up. They want us to stop them. They're seeking reassurance the system can handle whatever they dish out. Maybe short of them and everybody getting killed but they aren't grown up enough for that possibility to be real to them.
If we leave it up to natural constraints, in some circles known as 'God,' we're all going to die. Most of us, anyway, and masive destruction, via overshoot. While exceeding the carrying capacity of the earth we're depleting that capacity. It's already happening. We have to stop them.
They're really jut trying to grow up. It's up to us.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v31/n03/adam-phillips/in-praise-of-difficult-children