It's okay to be a bully bully bully bully

The paradox of intolerance goes like this: Do not tolerate the intolerant, only judge those who are judgmental, only kill killers, only bully bullies, and only war with warmongers. It's a superficial paradox; a contradiction only arises if you are using a strict rule: Intolerance of all kinds is wrong, judgment of all kinds is wrong, killing of all kinds is wrong, bullying of all kinds is wrong, and war of all kinds is wrong. But this strict rule is clearly false; defensive intolerance is fine, defensive judgment is fine, killing in defense is fine, bullying in defense is fine, and defensive war is just war. So it's perfectly consistent to be intolerant of intolerance, judgmental of judging, to kill killers, to bully bullies, to war with warmongers, and to hate hatred. If everyone followed the rule of "only bully bullies", then no bullying would be needed, as no bullying would get started. Same with all the other defensive rules. As long as you are not the aggressor, you are in the clear, because the alternative is to fail to stand up for yourself, to fail to stand up for others, to allow victimization to go unchecked, and to allow tyranny to trample over the innocent. A complication arises when escalation is involved. Is the escalator the bully, or the bully bully? If escalation bounces back and forth, you could argue that both sides are bullies, and so a third party that bullies either side would be a bully bully, which is fine. But, because of the muddiness of the situation, a fourth party might mistake the bully bully for a bully and proceed to bully the bully bully, making them a bully bully bully, which is not fine. If you understand who is who you might try to correct things as a fifth party by bullying the bully bully bully. In short, if you are an odd-numbered aggressor, you are in the wrong, but if you are an even-numbered aggressor, you're fine. Odd is evil, even is okay. But what if you are mistaken about where you are in the chain, or where you would be if you intervened and began to withdraw toleration, to judge, kill, bully, war, or hate? Our inability to ever know whether we are odd or even is exactly why we can do none of those things ever, and must take on a position of absolute pacifism. If aggressors walk all over us and crush us, so be it. We can guarantee we are even in the chain of aggression by being aggressor zero.