Brigitte's Passive, Aggressive Healing

I don't play Overwatch, and I probably never will, but I like to follow Overwatch news because the people who make Overwatch create interesting characters for the game. Case in point, the latest character created by the Overwatch team: Brigitte. Brigitte is basically a Paladin. She's tough, she focuses on melee combat, and she heals her allies. The only problem is how she heals them. Sure, she has an ability that lets her focus a little bit of healing on a single ally, and her ultimate ability heals every ally within a certain range of her, but both of those abilities take a while to charge and/or recharge, so she can't use them very often. Most of her healing is accomplished via a third, passive ability that heals every ally around her whenever she strikes an opponent. Whenever she hits an enemy with almost any of her attacks, every ally around her gets some healing.

That's not how healing normally works. Even in fantasy settings where there is such a thing as magical healing, it's not normally accomplished by causing physical harm. And in the real world, one can never heal any person by hurting another. That's a large reason why I don't like the term "Social Justice Warrior." Warriors fight. Warriors cause harm. Yes, warriors cause harm to ones enemies, and that, theoretically, might prevent further harm, but only if an enemy is eliminated, and Social Justice Warriors don't do that. One way to eliminate an enemy is by killing them, and, thankfully, most Social Justice Warriors haven't resorted to that. Another way to "eliminate" an enemy is to make that person not an enemy anymore (by far the better option, in my opinion), but Social Justice Warriors don't do that, either. If anything, most of the actions taken by the Social Justice Warriors I've seen has mainly served to aggravate the fighting. They think that they're accomplishing something by arguing with their enemies, but to me, it just seems to be creating more division. We don't need more fighting. We need more healing.

That's why, if I were to ever take an active role in defending any of the causes currently promoted by Social Justice Warriors, many of which are well worth defending, I still wouldn't take on the mantle of Social Justice Warrior or adopt many of their methods. I wouldn't even try to be a Social Justice Paladin, as they are still too violent for my taste. Instead, I would try to be a Social Justice Healer, doing good for many while doing harm to none. Those to whom harm is done and about whom ill is said tend to be resentful, and I don't want to generate resentment. That would only prolong the conflict. One does not end a verbal conflict by fighting, unless you think it counts to end a verbal conflict by escalating it into a physical one. Instead, we should try to deescalate conflicts by refraining from the argumentation and insults that make up too much of our modern political dialogue. We can disagree without being disagreeable, and we can heal those who have been hurt without causing further harm.