Topic from John Ralph) Animal rights activists terrorized a UCLA neurobiologist into abandoning his research on primates, anti-abortion activists want to criminalize abortion while opposing birth control, many environmentalists want to shut down coal and nuclear without any real alternatives.

Among political activists there are those who are actively "for" something and those who are actively "against" something. There are those who are advocating alternatives to something they oppose while others just oppose without any viable alternatives.

The Supreme Leader in Iran today came out fully "against" the reformist demonstrators, threatening them with more suppression without offering any resolution to address their concerns.

If the vigor expended in opposition does not include the promotion and support for a viable alternative, is it still ethical activism?

Ethical Individualism:

POF 9-7 The sum of ideas which are effective in us, the concrete content of our intuitions, constitutes what is individual in each of us, notwithstanding the universality of the world of ideas. In so far as this intuitive content applies to action, it constitutes the moral content of the individual. To let this content express itself in life is both the highest moral driving force and the highest motive a human being can have, who sees that in this content all other moral principles are in the end united. We may call this point of view ethical individualism.

The decisive factor of an intuitively determined action in any concrete instance is the discovery of the corresponding purely individual intuition.