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Vi hade en föreläsning på engelskan av en professor i non-violence enligt Ghandi, och hon frågade vid ett tillfälle två personer i klassen om de någonsin kände hat, ilska, kärlek, ödmjukhet, irritation, glädje, sorg.. med mera, för att bevisa att allt det är en del av mänskligheten. Vi skulle skvira 400 ord om någonting hon pratade om, så detta är jag som dök upp i hjärnan på mig. ^^ Jag tycker det är intressant, så jag ville dela med mig av det. ;)
"The questions Suman put forward were easy in a way. When asked so directly, the answer seems clear, but when one goes about living their lives it is hard to know that you are the same as the people living around you. Every individual feels different from the other; every individual sees the world differently, acts differently, likes and dislikes different things. We are all unique, but we often forget that we are all the same. We feel love, we feel hate. We have the ability to care for and to hurt. We are human beings. It matters less if we are male or female, old or young, dark or fair. What matters is that in every basic, human way; we are the same.
There is also a reason why we are different. We are individuals because we have the choice. We are not by nature good or evil, loving or hateful. We are by nature both and we are by choice: one. Because we have options we have room to choose, and because we can choose, we have responsibility. In this way, non-violence is the law of our species.
Laws are broken, plenty and with efficiency, but having broken a law is punishable. That’s the way our government works. You break a law, you are punished. It’s logical, simple. It is against the law to kill and hurt people and animals around us. Still we go out to war. Still our government asks us to break the law “in the name of our country". Does the law stop applying because it is suitable for the small number of people who benefit from it? Does not the suffering of the people outweigh the goals of those few people? Is it really worth so many thousands of people’s lives to solve a conflict between so few? Because that is actually all it is. It is a conflict between a finite number people, who happen to be in a place of power. Had the same conflict risen between two peasants, or two teachers, or two children, any consequences would only concern them and perhaps the people in their immediate surroundings. But because these people have different jobs, it puts entire countries in feud with each other.
Is this logical? Is this fair?"
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AnamCaara
Fri 28 Oct 2011 23:52
åh, jag så ska läsa. Men jag är trött. Jag ska läsa. Om inte, påminn mig!
AnamCaara
Sun 6 Nov 2011 00:03
Nu har jag läst det. Riktigt intressant.. så sant, även fast man liksom inte tänker på det det. Sådan liten skillnad det egentligen är..
Anonymous
Thu 27 Oct 2011 15:36
jätteintressant att få läsa :)
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