You’re explaining a third alternative: Regression and nonviolence. That’s not one of the two I mentioned.

Sure if you’re forced to choose between nonviolent regression and violent progress, some (but not all) would choose progress with its price over virtue with its price.

But that’s an entirely different discussion. You likely either didn’t read / comprehend what I wrote, or you’re being disingenuous with your comment.

Not everyone needs to cheer if we’ve been forced to choose violence. We can mourn that an even better choice was taken away.