If today’s protest movements are based on righteous indignation, the lack of concrete demands should not be a problem: shared norms (and the policies that would follow from them) can still broadly be assumed. But if they are being driven by rage, then a lack of clear goals might merely produce more anger and frustration, which in turn could eventually lead to physical violence and some kind of political nihilism.
如果今天的抗议活动来源于正当的义愤，那么就无需担心具体要求的缺失：人们仍然可以运用公认的准则（及由此所产生的政策）。但如果背后的驱动因素是震怒，那么缺乏明确的目标只可能带来更多的愤怒和沮丧，而更多的愤怒和沮丧最终可能导致身体暴力和某种形式的政治虚无。