For me, the tempering factor was that as I got older and read more, and experienced different kinds of people (most unpleasant) who wanted better things for themselves and speak definitely about how they'll need to harm others to get better things for themselves, others they claim are violent, be the exact kind of thing that they chastise and claim to hate.

It always just seemed like they didn't want to be good people, they just wanted to be the bad guys. It's why over the course of the last six months I've just eased off a lot of my once held ideology. If ideology does not make you a better person and you seek to utilize that ideology to hurt others and be the thing you claim to hate, it's not a worthwhile ideology.