Thursday, 5 November 2009

How can I stop a person harming me?

Hello and welcome to my blog, "How Can I Make It A Better World."

This is my blog No. 5.

You may want to begin from the beginning, in which case just scroll down this blog page.

With my writings I am trying to jot down my ideas on how I could make this, our world, a better place to live in, for us, and for the generations to come.

But, I can already see how impossible that aim is. Because I cannot think of how I can stop someone harming me and others. Judging by the history of conflict and wars through the centuries, and by the conflicts around the world even today, it seems that no one has yet
truly found the answer to the problem of how to stop someone harming others.

The last blog mentions of the world being one big global family. And that our lives on this earth will eventually end with our death, anyway. Therefore, I should not harm anyone else.

That may be is something I can do. I am robbed, but I can forgive the robber, and carry on with my life, with more determination to recoup the money I was robbed of.

But what if my forgiving the robber does not stop him from robbing others?

Who decides that the action of that person was a robbery in the firstr place? That "robber" might have though my money was rightfully his. He might have wanted to rob me to give it to another person more needy than me.

And what punishment can one give to that person? Who gives that punishment? To punish the robber is effectively causing him harm and that is against our principle.

You slap me, and encouraged by my family, I hit you back, twice. So you come up with something stronger than a fist, and hit me and my family, too, for having ill-advised me.
So I muster up greater force to destroy you.

Where does it end? How can it end so that everyone comes out a winner out of the situation?

Do you have an answer to the problem? Does our relegion have an answer?

I need to a lot more studying over the next few days.

Thank you for reading this entry. Please do add your suggestions to this subject of how to
make our world a better place to live in.

See you next time. Shree-1

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