[Chad Fairbanks]

Interesting read on that... :0) I think it was meant more towards looking inward rather than outward, though, but that's my own perspective on it...

[Porterville]

That is true, I look at it that way, but I also look at it - if a person feels they need to hurt someone, they ought to do everything in their power to restrain themselves... if not they can be judged because they are being selfish and therefore open themeslves up to judgement of others; something like that....

[Porterville]

(I think) It is kinda like the buddist priciple duty or Dharma; The thread in which we touch people is stretched infinately thin through our actions. Our decision of buying a pack of gum affects everyone around us in some way. If are actions are based on positive constructive thought rather than base desire, the world has been built up rather than torn down... now I have a tendancy to do all sorts of selfish things, but it doesn't mean I cannot aspire.

for example, the base desire of the environmentalist to see the environment pristine in So Cal led to complete devistation of the basin... absolutely pagan and negative.

from http://vava.essortment.com/differencesbetw_rrax.htm

Gita (II, 47). One should not act because one can gain by so doing, but rather because action, in itself, is necessary