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Originally Posted by Uplift  Only the guilty cringe at the sound of sirens. I hope that you find abuse offensive. Not a very nice, fluffy and Spiritual prospect is it. If you know you would act, no need to be insulted. Use your imagination, there are infinite ways to stop abuse, and suffering. Ethereal, is the caste system so appealling as well? And the beat goes on... not inspired by Bill gates? |
Only the guilty, or only those who
feel guilty? I suspect many guilty people don't believe they've done anything wrong and thus would still be guilty, but wouldn't cringe.
I strive to not be offended by anything. I fail often, but the more I succeed, the happier I become. What purpose does becoming offended serve? If I know that abuse should be stopped, what good does being offended do other than to cause me suffering through the negative emotions it invokes? The experience of negative emotion can surely be described as suffering. By saying that you hope I find abuse offensive, you're saying that you hope that abuse invokes negative emotions, and thus you're effectively hoping that abuse causes me to suffer, even if I'm not the one being abused. How is that helpful? How does that
reduce suffering? Would it not be more spiritually aware to hope that I do all I can to end abuse, and to not focus on the offense/negative emotions/suffering at all?
I also strive to remember that whatever someone says of me reflects more about themselves than it does about me. So no, I don't feel insulted. And neither offense nor insult prevent action when action is required.
There are many ways to end suffering, and one is to listen to and consider the words of others, and to understand that our perceptions are different, and that everyone's perceptions tend to be limited by their own experiences. Someone else's view could be closer to reality than mine, so no-one's view can be disregarded without due consideration if I wish to see the world as it really is. That applies to me and you and everyone else.