@Maggot
I understand exactly where u speak. Back to the historical record we have placed before us.
Matthew 25, "and then the judgment" is the day I am held accountable for my sowing and reaping, in my studies of higher things in that historical perusal.
Others sow violence, anarchy, and destruction on otherwise peaceful people and if my response is "wrong" by a higher standard, the failure you speak of, then, on the day mentioned, I will reap my ultimate reward, whatever HE judges. And that is based on my following the second period recorded in the history we discuss.
In other histories we can study, the Original People on American dirt speak of the circle, and further historical study gives much similarity.
And in that. all is the same but different but the same, as well all is different but same, yet different. Each historical study is but a roadmap, to a place none understand, the words of several of those studies, make clear, that mortal man will not understand, but seek answers that only come in the end.
Those histories all reference the law of the jungle and the violence, anarchy, and destruction that travels the paths all travel toward the end.
Like you, I am old. Your threat response (which, you call failure by other historical standards) is the normal law of the jungle response, and your response is mine as well.
The only difference between us, is, our view on the rightness or wrongness of it based on historical study. View.
Where exactly your view is, could be discussed in pm.. to no end. And in a different point in my life, I would have sought such discussion and enjoyed it greatly, but now, in later age, I have accepted there is much I dont know, wont know, and cannot know, and I no longer seek that knowledge.
What I do know, is that i have a journeys end coming, i can go to it like a lamb led to slaughter, or like a roaring lion. Something deep inside me that I no longer question tells me to roar. The part of me that studied those histories assures me I will face the ultimate end each study predicts, of that I have no doubt. I accept that, right or wrong, by me, here and now, will be an very clear answer I receive then, no longer questioned or wondered about, or knowledge sought. Finis'
Until then, when I see violence, anarchy, and destruction, brought on me by anothers choice, and given no other option but take destruction, i roar, and i reap them or they reap me, until the end.
And my judgment comes. I welcome that moment, look forward to it, unafraid, because He said, "Fear Not !"...