Kill Your Enemies | Lumir S Vinod

“You have no enemies. No one in the world is your enemy. There is no one you need to hurt.” — Thors the Troll of the Jom (Vinland Saga)

A few weeks ago, I watched the anime Vinland Saga. As some of you may know, some time ago I was the kind of person who would go to any extent to win. If there was an opponent or an enemy standing in my way, I would do anything to defeat them. I would come up with plans to destroy them, and I didn’t care whether it involved manipulation, emotional games, brainwashing, or anything else.

Kill Your Enemies | Lumir S Vinod

I don’t want to reveal everything, but there are two incidents I can share by changing the scenario a little.

Once, I planned to get some students to join something so that I could get a commission. Some students came to me for help, but later they wanted to buy the same thing from someone else. In their point of view, I was a helpful person, and they trusted me. Three students (not the exact number) followed what I told them, but they still don’t know that I was the one pulling the strings. I was the invisible hand behind everything. I used their information to stop them without them realizing it. Some of their classmates doubted me, but the two students I had influenced were ready to go against their own classmates to prove that I was innocent. Yes, I manipulated, and used mind games to give them a checkmate by using their emotions.

Another incident happened in the early days of my education (I don’t want to mention the institute name). There was a particular lab exam where we had to write programs. In real life, you don’t need to memorize such programs, especially if you come from a coding background. No one can realistically memorize two pages of code with no logical connection, because it’s pure syntax. If I had access to a computer, I could easily solve the problem using the internet, since the exam was supposed to evaluate problem-solving skills. But in that exam, it was completely different. It was like using chopsticks to build a well.

In my class, I was the one who prepared notes and shared them to make things easier for my classmates. I was sure that most of them, except me and my best friend, would use copies to pass the exam. They wouldn’t really understand the code, but they would still write the answers somehow.

So I made a plan. I wanted to prove that the exam system itself was wrong. I knew that if everyone wrote the correct answer, the examiner would think the question was easy to memorize. So I intentionally made the notes wrong for that particular question. My plan was that when many students wrote the wrong code, it would show that the question could not realistically be memorized.

You may think I should have done nothing, but if I had done nothing, they would have used the internet or other sources to get the correct answer anyway. I didn’t want that to happen. I told this plan only to my friend, and we did it. It worked, but in the end, neither I nor my friend got the hard question.

After these incidents, I started rethinking my mindset. But I still feel that if someone becomes my enemy, I can go to any extent to defeat them.
After that, I watched Vinland Saga, and it gave me more openness. I started questioning, who are my enemies? What really is an enemy? What is its definition?

Enemies are relative. The opponents I came across are fighting for the same reasons as me, for their survival, for their families, or for their rights, just like me. So they are heroes of their own stories, but ideologies make us clash. So enemies are just a badge we give to someone who is not for our ideology. But they are also fighting for their rights.

Violence or unethical ways are not good. It becomes a cycle. If I do something like that and destroy someone’s life, then his or her relatives or family will come against me, and this will go on as a cycle that never ends. Like Thors once said, a true warrior does not need a sword.

But now you may think, what about people who murder, kidnap, or rape? Are they also fighting for their rights? That is where the philosophy gets complicated, and if you do not understand it correctly, you may end up being naive and allow harm.

Core logic of the philosophy:

• “Enemy” is not a person → it’s a state of conflict
• People act based on ignorance, fear, survival, or incentives
• If you remove hatred → the “enemy” disappears conceptually

People who rape or murder are not “misunderstood friends.” They are committing serious crimes and causing real harm.

So what are they? Legally: They are criminals people who violate laws and must be stopped and punished.

These acts often relate to things like:

• Antisocial Personality Disorder (lack of empathy, disregard for others)
• Extreme conditioning, trauma, or ideology
• Power, control, or impulse-driven behavior

But important:
Not all criminals are mentally ill
And mental illness ≠ violence by default

Morally / socially: 

They are dangerous individuals who must be:

• restrained
• prevented from harming others
• held accountable

Society exists to protect innocent people first, not to justify offenders.

So you should have to understand: 

• You don’t hate them blindly
• Maximum defensive action 
• Zero tolerance for harm 

What is NOT justified

• Revenge 
• Anger-driven violence 
• Punishment by individuals (vigilantism) 

That’s why societies rely on institutions (police, courts) instead of personal retaliation.

• Violence for ego/emotion ->wrong
• Force to stop immediate harm ->sometimes necessary

Now I can say it loudly: I have no enemies.

Conclusion

Enemies are not people but situations created by conflict, fear, and opposing ideologies, and when we remove hatred, the idea of an enemy begins to disappear. However, protecting innocent people is still necessary, so the goal is not revenge or destruction, but controlled action guided by justice, responsibility, and awareness.