RE: Is It Possible for Humanity to Create a Peaceful World with Religion in it?
November 2, 2016 at 10:33 am
(This post was last modified: November 2, 2016 at 10:47 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Can society create a world that acknowledges that one of those differences is violence and aggressiveness? Or is that the one verboten thing that must be eradicated...reverse adolf style, lol?
Or, to put it another way...when did we become such pansies? We never seem comfortable acknowledging the value of otherwsie negatively perceived traits, as in the relentless and aggressive assualt on some unfinished job - plenty of homeless and hungry in the world that could use houses and kibble, or the merciless slaughter of pests and disease vectors. It's all kumbayah and avoidance nowadays...even avoiding bad sounding words, like violence, aggression, assertiveness. I;m sure they can be, and would be, scrubbed for the examples above. Doing those things..that's not [insert negatively valued attribute here].
OFC, I'd mention decisive miltary action against despots the world over as yet another way to increase the peace, but for many...that would be too far into negative territory despite it's effectiveness. These dreams of world peace, as it were...in addition to having their origins in fantasy always seem to be comprised of further fantasy even when they're divorced from that tree. We'd prefer to imagine than to effect, if the action seems counter-intuitive to the ideal.
All of this being a long winded way of slightly rephrasing the question you asked. -Is- the existence of the sort of conflict we may have in mind negative? Unless we can get a list togther, or a line..wherein one side is negative and the other isn't...and unambiguosly so, both the questions and the answers will be...effectively, meaningless....we can't even be sure we're all discussing the same things.
Or, to put it another way...when did we become such pansies? We never seem comfortable acknowledging the value of otherwsie negatively perceived traits, as in the relentless and aggressive assualt on some unfinished job - plenty of homeless and hungry in the world that could use houses and kibble, or the merciless slaughter of pests and disease vectors. It's all kumbayah and avoidance nowadays...even avoiding bad sounding words, like violence, aggression, assertiveness. I;m sure they can be, and would be, scrubbed for the examples above. Doing those things..that's not [insert negatively valued attribute here].
OFC, I'd mention decisive miltary action against despots the world over as yet another way to increase the peace, but for many...that would be too far into negative territory despite it's effectiveness. These dreams of world peace, as it were...in addition to having their origins in fantasy always seem to be comprised of further fantasy even when they're divorced from that tree. We'd prefer to imagine than to effect, if the action seems counter-intuitive to the ideal.
All of this being a long winded way of slightly rephrasing the question you asked. -Is- the existence of the sort of conflict we may have in mind negative? Unless we can get a list togther, or a line..wherein one side is negative and the other isn't...and unambiguosly so, both the questions and the answers will be...effectively, meaningless....we can't even be sure we're all discussing the same things.
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