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Jordan Peterson said recognize the monster in you. I get it—I’m no hero, because I know the harm I could do, especially with words. My Christian ethics leash that chaos; I don’t want to wreck anyone, but I’ll speak truth even when it makes me the bad guy. History’s full of this: the Founding Fathers were terrorists to some, legends to others. Washington could’ve been a king but chose restraint; Moses led through the wild, flawed but faithful. Experience forges heroes into monsters or lifts common men to greatness—choice and circumstance decide. I don’t know if history will remember me. If it does, I hope it’s as a man of integrity, holding the line in a world that begs you to bend