Sometimes taking three steps backwards is the only way to be able to take the right path after you make a mistake, I know it well. As for who would stop that guy? How about people like you? It wouldn't be easy, it wouldn't be the best solution for a while, but I don't see how licking the shoes of a government that allows a handful of people act as if they are superior and treat any kind of being as objects for their pleasure is really better than that.

[Ikki sighs.]

Maybe it's not a matter to even destroy it all, just destroy the ones in charge of it now and let people who would do things better in their place. Your world is all about ships, right? If the navigator of a ship is leading it straight to stones, making it go throw all the storms there are and just gives no fucks for the actual ship so long as he and his room are in perfect state, wouldn't it be better to change the navigator to one that at least will try to make the ship go through the less troubling waters? And if the captain defends the first navigator because he's biased and doesn't care either about the ship and the crew, wouldn't it be better to change that one as well? It doesn't mean you have to sink the whole ship even if it still is a revolution.