1041:
Is a no-weapon world, where we trust our neighbour not to
attack us, just pie in the sky? A planet
of humans - can it exist without resorting to violent confrontation? A non-violent world is something we can
hardly imagine because everyday we hear about war. We none of us know or have any confidence in
any other system, so when things get difficult we try to exert force; the
bigger force quells the smaller one. And
it works ... for a while.
This system has been in operation for as long as history has
been recorded, so we think that no other system could ever work. We always fall
back on the familiar, showing the violent-self.
Humans will always be fairly stupid when it comes to finding non-violent
ways to deal with differences of opinion.
We hardly notice that violence is the driving force for so
many of our daily decisions. For example, we use violence to feed ourselves
when we take away the lives of animals.
That could mean when we eat meat, or use the milk of the enslaved-cow or
feed our beloved dog with the flesh of executed farm animals. All that stops when we stop buying the
product, and start buying cruelty-free and environmentally-friendly and
plant-based product. Just in this one way, we send a powerful
message to those who produce our food and clothing; if enough of us did it they
would go out of business.
If it’s plant-based products we use, we make a statement to
that effect and back it up by what we buy.
And within that statement is our backing for a more generous and
trusting world. We take a gentler approach to those who are unlike us. It’s the
first step towards a peaceful, no-weapon world.
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