zombiecuddle:

but your giant risk has to ACTUALLY PAN OUT otherwise you’re just an asshole.

Brutus and the conspirators to kill Caesar thought they were saving everyone but like within a day all the Roman people were like “WTF guys, we LIKED that dude. He passed land reforms and shit that no one’s been able to do forever, and plus he put on sweet games.” Plus there were less-competent emperors after that and everything went to shit, so nice job saving everyone, douchebags, you just made Rome more violent than it was before and removed the one dude who had a handle on things.

The element that separates traitorous idiocy from noble self-sacrifice is the ratio between humility and impact. Thinking you’re going to save everyone from something terrible and ending up doing something largely unnoticed that has zero impact on anyone’s lives is literally the worst possible combination of arrogance and ineffectiveness. Nice one.