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... and when they don't want to hear your solutions to injustices, put you in a cage, and burn you alive... what then? Supposing you sit down with them for a m
by harshreality 9y ago
... and when they don't want to hear your solutions to injustices, put you in a cage, and burn you alive... what then?
Supposing you sit down with them for a month, and convince them of your world view and your solution to an injustice, and they agree, and then you go back to your respective lives. Their culture is going to exert pressures that make them want to rip up their agreement because it makes no sense in their everyday social and political environment. They don't maintain the frame of mind that enabled the agreement. How do you propose to deal with that?
- mistermann 9y agoWithdraw and let their societies collapse upon themselves?
- harshreality 9y agoSounds great. Isn't that what we tried to do with the Korean War armistice? How's that working out? Is North Korea collapsing yet?
- mistermann 9y agoIt's not exactly thriving.
- golergka 9y agoDo you want to get ISIS? Because that's how you get ISIS.
- mistermann 9y agoNonstop stirring of a hornets nest more like it.
- ljf 9y agoThis isn't just about sitting down with people now - it's about looking ahead and stopping things changing and escalating in the future. It's about asking why and what series of events led to people behaving this way. Alt you can just see them as scum and want to kill them too - but that isn't going to solve this issue or make the world safer.