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It's important to give back what you took. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35fRoOYhE6Y
I mean, I'ma guess you're not looking for philosophical advice, but I'll put my two cents out.
The source of cruelty is awareness, and that's proven time and again by our ability as a species (speaking IRL of course) to interpret our surroundings.
To define awareness, you must define sapience and sentience.
Sapience is the state of mind where a being/creature/thing (thing used loosely) isn't just self-aware, it understands its thoughts & its surroundings, thus meaning it has capacity to learn.
Sentience merely means being alive. Your cat is alive, your grass is alive, and that means it can react. However, these mentioned things don't understand the stimuli, and they can't understand thoughts. Neither can they properly process language; a cat or dog associates things with noise, much as you or me would associate a noise with something. Onomatopeia (I hate that word with a passion, sorry if I misspell it lol) is one such way to show an association of a sound with something.
From that point, we can now address the elephant in the room!
Our unfortunate gift of sapience.
Because we're sapient, we are aware and understand our surroundings, and we're aware of the truthfully VERY fucked things nature does. It also gives us the capacity to know we made our world a cruddy place, but also gives us the capacity to understand we can't fix it without everyone being on board.
And with ~8 BILLION people, that's nigh impossible. You're not reaching every single person, and even if you did, there's no guarantee they'd agree.
Now that that's in your mind, consider that not every person sees the world for how it is; they aren't weak or lesser, they have good reasons most likely, with the most probable (or as close as you can get, I reckon...) being they choose to ignore it, lest they lose their sanity.
And in the cruel world today, sanity is as precious a commodity as gold, if not more; that is, it's rare, valued highly, and most can't reasonably have large amounts.
They're not mentally ill, they're just incapable of staying sane in our world as it is today.
Mental health isn't valued highly by older generations, as they (most likely, there ARE exceptions) weren't taught keeping a good mindset is necessary.
I myself know plenty who are great people, but lack the sanity to go about the "daily grind" without it feeling grueling. I can't even hold a job due to mental problems, yet I'm aware of these issues, and I'm aware that I can't hold a schedule to save my life.
Hope you enjoyed this... arguably pointless comment and one-sided discussion of philosophy.
P.S. I'm writing this on my cruddy tablet that puts periods and commas in random places plus it has an autocorrect that does what it wants, if I said something weird or this makes no sense, please, blame the stupid autocorrect of this tablet.
The source of cruelty is awareness, and that's proven time and again by our ability as a species (speaking IRL of course) to interpret our surroundings.
To define awareness, you must define sapience and sentience.
Sapience is the state of mind where a being/creature/thing (thing used loosely) isn't just self-aware, it understands its thoughts & its surroundings, thus meaning it has capacity to learn.
Sentience merely means being alive. Your cat is alive, your grass is alive, and that means it can react. However, these mentioned things don't understand the stimuli, and they can't understand thoughts. Neither can they properly process language; a cat or dog associates things with noise, much as you or me would associate a noise with something. Onomatopeia (I hate that word with a passion, sorry if I misspell it lol) is one such way to show an association of a sound with something.
From that point, we can now address the elephant in the room!
Our unfortunate gift of sapience.
Because we're sapient, we are aware and understand our surroundings, and we're aware of the truthfully VERY fucked things nature does. It also gives us the capacity to know we made our world a cruddy place, but also gives us the capacity to understand we can't fix it without everyone being on board.
And with ~8 BILLION people, that's nigh impossible. You're not reaching every single person, and even if you did, there's no guarantee they'd agree.
Now that that's in your mind, consider that not every person sees the world for how it is; they aren't weak or lesser, they have good reasons most likely, with the most probable (or as close as you can get, I reckon...) being they choose to ignore it, lest they lose their sanity.
And in the cruel world today, sanity is as precious a commodity as gold, if not more; that is, it's rare, valued highly, and most can't reasonably have large amounts.
They're not mentally ill, they're just incapable of staying sane in our world as it is today.
Mental health isn't valued highly by older generations, as they (most likely, there ARE exceptions) weren't taught keeping a good mindset is necessary.
I myself know plenty who are great people, but lack the sanity to go about the "daily grind" without it feeling grueling. I can't even hold a job due to mental problems, yet I'm aware of these issues, and I'm aware that I can't hold a schedule to save my life.
Hope you enjoyed this... arguably pointless comment and one-sided discussion of philosophy.
P.S. I'm writing this on my cruddy tablet that puts periods and commas in random places plus it has an autocorrect that does what it wants, if I said something weird or this makes no sense, please, blame the stupid autocorrect of this tablet.
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