tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post8967919368322234569..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: No Payback in KindUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-22309237665422213622011-05-26T18:14:24.307-04:002011-05-26T18:14:24.307-04:00So often, (US) Americans (esp. on the Right, but a...So often, (US) Americans (esp. on the Right, but also Center and even Left) have the "Bad Guy" theory of morality.<br /><br />There are Good Guys (us) and Bad Guys (them). You just KILL the Bad Guys, and <i>voila</i>: there's no more Bad in the world!<br /><br />...except it never works out like that. There's always more Bad. Is it because "They" keeping breeding Badness?<br /><br />Or maybe, is it because Badness is something endemic to the HUMAN condition (not the "Them" condition!)?<br /><br />If you can't kill Badness by killing "Bad Guys", we need Another Way.<br /><br />We need to not <i>annihilate</i> Badness out of people, but TRANSFORM them (and us!) out of it.<br /><br />We need <i>Satyagraha</i>: Gandhi's "Soul Force". We need nonviolent change. We need nonviolent direct action.<br /><br />[This is all just a lengthy "Aaaaaaaaamen!" to your post, Doug. ;-)]JCFnoreply@blogger.com