But you take even the most orderly phenomenon and delve down far enough into it, and you look close enough, you find chaos. If you value any of your rights and freedoms, then vigilantly defend all of them. If you give up one, you give up all, by creating the precedent by which they may be taken from you. There is no more virtue in allowing another to convince you that their mistake is really yours, than there is in denying your own. When you can't seem to find an answer to the problem that faces you, it may be time to consider whether you're asking the right question.
Enemies are cheap.
Friends, on the other hand, are beyond price. It is always the liar who finds the truth hardest to swallow. Direct personal experience is always the truest and deepest way to learn. Unfortunately, sometimes it is also the hardest and most painful. Never burn a bridge, until you're really sure you're never going to want to cross it again.