You don't need to make your heart and your head agree. Let your head make the decision, your heart will catch up eventually.
Make decisions from the strong part of you, not the weak.
So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.
I want to regain my First Amendment rights.
Situations reveal who we are, they don't create who we are.
My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.