• Michael@slrpnk.net
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    10 hours ago

    No, you’re perfectly fine, even if it were targeted at me I wouldn’t take it personally. I’m attempting to respond to you and also represent my own viewpoints for the thread — and I’m sorry for the misunderstanding.

    I just think that without non-polarizing idealism and unity, the alternative is modern horror, a revival of barbarism, and destruction on a scale that the world has never seen before.

    I don’t want to believe that will be the outcome, though. But it still won’t stop me from doing everything in my power to open and soften hearts so such a reality never comes to pass. I don’t think anybody really wants a world of renewed violence and suffering, when there already is so much suffering and violence.

    I’m well aware of the realities of this world. Too aware, I’d say. Most people escape and distract themselves — or they are simply uninformed. I’d rather be the person who knows and still chooses to be perceivably naive, seeing the best in others — even if it’s not obvious or readily apparent on the surface.

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      7 hours ago

      In my opinion and view of it all is that of violence being intrinsic to human nature. I mean we come into this world through pain and blood. Nature itself is violent, a rule of biological life is that it must consume other life to sustain its own, we may be intelligent but we are still products of nuture and also its subjects. We exist wihthin a universe where violence and life are directly linked.

      I dont think that means you shouldnt strive for what you are striving for, but its also about probable change as much as its about possible change and in my view all change requires a degree of violence.