Im immediately suspicious of anyone who says they’re “anti-war.” What does that even mean? All people are against wars they don’t think are justified. The people who start wars THINK they’re justified (#russia), and the people who have to defend themselves actually ARE justified (#Ukraine). In 2022, being “anti-war” means you’re pro-slaughter.
@KevinLikesMaps
ANTI-WARs as meaning.
Lots of confusion possible from the very beginning if not defined possibly to the utmost detail or end branches of each thought, otherwise one is left guessing.
I wonder if I would fight back at all since I consider it all War from beginning (the harsh extraction and mental/physical suffering even if diluted or through your population to do the same) so inside all these umbrellas of war I ask myself if I would even bother to fight back and let someone finish me almost mercifully which it might not be or harsh cold prison (which could mean living in general today not just another regime trying to take over). A real opt out in a moment.
Today, the main parts of individual and human respect seem less existent and even more dangerous when mixed and profited from / people milked of their very existence barely alive or holding any spirit just working inside one continually encroaching efficiency rules and ruling system.
So in short
Fight your own people or fight others first or not to fight / not let them get to you / some other way perhaps slower and distancing... just one of the many ways to say it I guess...
@freeschool When you fight for land or your right to exist, you're not just fighting for yourself. You're fighting for your neighbors and future generations. Your approach is selfish and cowardly and lacks dignity. If everyone took your approach, then slavery would still be widespread in the West.
You seem to feel like life isnt worth living but I hope I'm reading too much into that. If I'm not, I hope you get the help you need. I say this with utmost compassion.
@KevinLikesMaps
WAR WITHOUT IMPROVING PEOPLE'S MENTALITY & UNDERSTANDING = MORE WAR
As shortest reply "Sure but imagine that's what the other side is saying also, so all you get IS war."
There is a lot of error that is possible in fighting for others (not just speaking for others which also can lead to mistakes though lesser perhaps).
An example is seeing a situation your wife or husband is in and reacting... that's error. And though you might be in the right it's about a better way.
First see and clarify THEN ACT.
My point is you may end up ONLY WITH ACTION AND NOT MUCH ELSE.
ACTION-MAN STYLE FOREVER WARS.
There is a weak kind of 'empty hand' or 'empty fist' kind of approach which seeks not to make further error from further action (so not 0 action but not just monotone stuff on top of existing errors (of which there are man and need sorting first) which is hard but must swallow (pride or emotions) as a level ABOVE from being brave and reacting by force...by withstanding it towards a MORE long term solution (not just allowing leaders to fight over and over but able to reason amongst your own population. It seems eithout reason AND reasoning power some things will ONLY seek to take over you again and again, though not just through direct force, economic and other warfare... but everything without more the mentality or principles I mention.
So my premise might depend on a few tough things and how long term or communicative/ sympathetic the future is if you know 'civilised' barbaric replacements (that we have now) are almost even worse mixing aesthetic nice front shops to the same thing unto it's own population as we go to jobs providing economic leverage (tax and bank %'s that go towards all these things as a vicious circle spinning even faster) reinforcing others (maybe general from global north to global south or West to East etc and that classic war).
So know you know a bit more what I'm heading for. Your "kind'' of words can get you/us into more trouble when it's not just clear life or death, but the slow siphoning of a patients blood over centuries which in my eyes is worse for planet, people and ethics under what is not as clear as direct war and not even giving chance to something better.
More 'normalised' totalitarian financial fascism (even if it just about feeds us by starving others or displaces all these problems) is not the way.
I believe we are still under slavery only a bit more luxurious as getting the loot and dividends from abroad from pirates if various kinds and people's own thinking "ah yeah this is normal and totally don't see problem living lifestyle I am and surely it's not by bad design". I aim for adjusting the balance / material-ethical justice via better communication within peers or whoever will listen while not jumping into another war of which is just another and another, almost all the same or colours of uniform different.
Force (and the whole banking that supplies it + industry and tech that ends up aimed on it's domestic people (after big war like panopticon stuff) + lack of understanding of war by people or constant manipulation to attack...) doesn't end up much better.
And I'm not saying there is a option other than death but the above paragraph is not furthering good so you really might have to use your brain and everyone else's to avoid more of the same. This is why partially nonviolence works not as inaction BUT FOCUS ON EDUCATION / UNDOING WAR MMENTALITIES.
A kind of heart vs muscle to which I agree in certain orders, including both alternating however the whole deliberate product of war and who funds it and why sadly makes us in onion skins of illusion about the use of it and indeed furthering things meaning only more of the same if not worse because still we the people don't have the decisions, intelligence, sympathy for mankind while being firm etc.... the people are easily lead into more and mostly banks (which can fund both sides) and Tech and everyone are playing themselves for fools/not being effective in what I aim for in the mind not to end up in the very same games with someone else in a variety of modern ways which is very clever and may only result in death as it's matrix.
I believe we also came from a false 'turbo' period where we got x3 global population in perhaps 80 years. That can't be sustained without more mind over matter and ends up being undone/straightened as part of planet/climate/material/economic/etc justice so there are many things you can't cheat, only delay.
