See this link for Peck’s distillation of what evil is. At the top in gray. ...”the exercise of political will” to interfere with or stop another’s spiritual growth.
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/X0038E2E2/
I lived through this. I had to go down to the Pit earlier in my life, after a failed relationship. It changed me.
Many have lived well and without a lot of harm or having to see or live in evil places or with evil people. Now they’ve become unwilling to see evil.
Upthread, someone shared this:
A Protest from France. Thank you, whoever it was.
A poignant quote:
The claim that wartime measures, which threaten the economic livelihood of the great majority of the population and also the lives of the poorest and most fragile people of the world economy—a point on which I will say more below—are in order to save the lives of a few, most of whom are close to death anyway, is an extraordinary claim, to say the least.
Without going into any detail, let me just highlight that this contention squarely contradicts the abortion policies that Western governments have applied since the 1970s. There, the reasoning was exactly the other way around. The personal liberty and comfort of the women who wished to abort their children was given priority over the right to lives of these yet unborn children. According to World Health Organization (WHO) figures, each and every year, some 40–50 million babies are aborted worldwide. In 2018 alone, more than 224,000 babies have been aborted in France. However serious the current COVID-19 pandemic may yet become, it will remain a small fraction of these casualties. Not only have governments neglected to “save lives” when it comes to abortions. They have in point of fact condoned and funded the killing of human beings on a massive scale.
Thank you for posting that. I followed your link and read a bit. What jumped out at me was this... "We know the rules of community; we know the healing effect of community in terms of individual lives. If we could somehow find a way across the bridge of our knowledge, would not these same rules have a healing effect upon our world? "
"We human beings have often been referred to as social animals. But we are not yet community creatures. We are impelled to relate with each other for our survival. But we do not yet relate with the inclusivity, realism, self-awareness, vulnerability, commitment, openness, freedom, equality, and love of genuine community. "
"It is clearly no longer enough to be simply social animals, babbling together at cocktail parties and brawling with each other in business and over boundaries. It is our task--our essential, central, crucial task - to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures. It is the only way that human evolution will be able to proceed."
M. Scott Peck, Psychiatrist & author The Different Drum
In other words..., WWG1WGA.
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