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This continues to be relevant: > “When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you se
by echelon_musk 1y ago
This continues to be relevant:
> “When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti
- tremon 1y agoWhen you separate yourself by [insert tribalist rhetoric], it breeds violence This may sound superficially true, but it is confusing cause and effect. It's more likely to be the other way around: people seeking violence need to separate themselves from their target. That does not automatically mean that every self-classification carries an implication of violence.