the way you beat a really badass motherfucker is you find someone even more badass.
it's not what they teach you in sunday school, i know. well, there's that other sunday school, too, and maybe it has better lessons....
but, it's the truth.
nobody was going to beat the nazis by taking the high road.
that's just how it is.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/05/08/dont-forget-how-the-soviet-union-saved-the-world-from-hitler/