I agree with your theory. But spending so much energy on safety leaves little to none left to work for change.
How to you get people to learn acceptance and respect.
Somewhere in so many minds the lines between freedom of thought and speech and freedom to act have gotten blurred. I mean I can disagree with something and dislike it immensely. But I will agree that people have the right to thier own beliefs and actions so long as they give that same respect to even those with opposite views. But when I look at people I find that most people find that most people find any actions which display views outside of thier own as an attack on thier views - when really it is just a different way of existing. How did freedom of conscience become a culture with people feeling free to dictate others conscience and then claim they are "hurt" if they cant.
And yes answering a "you must" with a "you must not" is wrong and doesn't solve anything in the long run, but I don't know what else makes the point to those who cant distinguish a right to decide their own life from the right to decide others. And yes it is short sighted, because what happens eventually is that people follow the forms and all to many people think lack of overt hate means equality has been reached. But it does cause enough people to face something they wouldn't have otherwise. Time to learn that the mere existance of a difference isn't going to destroy their world. And it probably does prolong the actual oppression since the change is largely cosmetic. But some will have more safety than they ever dreamed possible. And maybe, depending on how bad it is, without that safety they can't work on a better way, because one must meet minimum levels of surviving to act, and in this culture, minimum levels of thriving to be listened to. What if the wrong way gets the right reuslts? I personally value true justice and true freedom over gains in safety. But I can't make myself value my prefernce over others' safety. Not when they have to bear the consequences. Who has the right to ask someone else they martyr themselves to their beliefs. Who has the right to say that others should respect other people's right to speech when they what they have themselves to lose by not demanding that stiffling is far, far more.
Sure it would be great if people had true faith and convictions in their beliefs. Because sometimes my own crazy take on the situation is the strange idea that what someone else being treated with equal respect, and given equal rights even though they are different wouldn't threaten people. The weird need to squash dissenting ways would be gone.
Part one: me being my opinionated self (but maybe in a nice way). Still just opinions -YMMV
How to you get people to learn acceptance and respect.
Somewhere in so many minds the lines between freedom of thought and speech and freedom to act have gotten blurred. I mean I can disagree with something and dislike it immensely. But I will agree that people have the right to thier own beliefs and actions so long as they give that same respect to even those with opposite views. But when I look at people I find that most people find that most people find any actions which display views outside of thier own as an attack on thier views - when really it is just a different way of existing. How did freedom of conscience become a culture with people feeling free to dictate others conscience and then claim they are "hurt" if they cant.
And yes answering a "you must" with a "you must not" is wrong and doesn't solve anything in the long run, but I don't know what else makes the point to those who cant distinguish a right to decide their own life from the right to decide others. And yes it is short sighted, because what happens eventually is that people follow the forms and all to many people think lack of overt hate means equality has been reached. But it does cause enough people to face something they wouldn't have otherwise. Time to learn that the mere existance of a difference isn't going to destroy their world. And it probably does prolong the actual oppression since the change is largely cosmetic. But some will have more safety than they ever dreamed possible. And maybe, depending on how bad it is, without that safety they can't work on a better way, because one must meet minimum levels of surviving to act, and in this culture, minimum levels of thriving to be listened to. What if the wrong way gets the right reuslts? I personally value true justice and true freedom over gains in safety. But I can't make myself value my prefernce over others' safety. Not when they have to bear the consequences. Who has the right to ask someone else they martyr themselves to their beliefs. Who has the right to say that others should respect other people's right to speech when they what they have themselves to lose by not demanding that stiffling is far, far more.
Sure it would be great if people had true faith and convictions in their beliefs. Because sometimes my own crazy take on the situation is the strange idea that what someone else being treated with equal respect, and given equal rights even though they are different wouldn't threaten people. The weird need to squash dissenting ways would be gone.