This TedTalk is brilliant - it gets to the core of why we are seeing a rise in behaviors linked to fear, anger and mind-boggling, almost inhuman, aggressive acts during this time.
The whole belief that we can heal pain with pain or make something right by killing another human being is so fatally flawed that it screams out loud in silence.
I used to be a tough cookie, when I was a kid. I thought that I was going to pursue a career either in the special agent force or the Navy Seals. Naturally, I also stubbornly believed that certain acts were just so despicable, that they deserved death sentence. The thing is, those who sentence someone else to death, will end up killers themselves.
And there is no objective truth seen through the eyes of any human, so we will never be able to rightfully judge something according to the deed done.
Our challenge - as I see it - is to focus on life rather than death. And with that comes the possibility of creating an identity that resonates in an honest way; where we are not left with a bitter taste in our mouth after our, culturally accepted perhaps, but deeply shallow and (self)-destructive deeds.
The whole belief that we can heal pain with pain or make something right by killing another human being is so fatally flawed that it screams out loud in silence.
I used to be a tough cookie, when I was a kid. I thought that I was going to pursue a career either in the special agent force or the Navy Seals. Naturally, I also stubbornly believed that certain acts were just so despicable, that they deserved death sentence. The thing is, those who sentence someone else to death, will end up killers themselves.
And there is no objective truth seen through the eyes of any human, so we will never be able to rightfully judge something according to the deed done.
Our challenge - as I see it - is to focus on life rather than death. And with that comes the possibility of creating an identity that resonates in an honest way; where we are not left with a bitter taste in our mouth after our, culturally accepted perhaps, but deeply shallow and (self)-destructive deeds.
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