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begueradj 3 days ago

"You who is afraid of wars

Tell me where does peace come from"

Ait Menguellet, Kabyle poet and singer.

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Ma8ee 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Logically, that is just stupid. And it glorifies human suffering as something necessary for peace.

It’s easy to imagine a world where violence between nations was almost forgotten and conflicts were always solved by negotiations and following previous agreements. See what the EU accomplished: can anyone imagine, say, Germany go to war with France today, even considering the history of those countries.

Yes, I’m afraid of wars! I don’t want my children dying alone in the cold mud. I don’t want my grandchildren crying of fear in a shelter. I don’t want our prosperity used to build tanks and airplanes instead of building schools and hospitals and fight climate change.

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tetris11 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

What's the meaning here? It sounds very close to a Mao Zedong saying.

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begueradj 3 days ago | parent [-]

That means we should embrace life as it is, we should accept its good and bad sides because there is no good without bad, and no bad without good.

It's like in the story written by Khalil Gibran where a pastor passed by an injured Satan who asked for his help and to not let him die.

In the beginning, the pastor refused because Satan is the enemy of humankind, he's behind everything bad that happens to us. By the end, the pastor helped the wounded Satan because without him, the pastor's job and social status can not even exist.

Without the Satan/War/Bad there is no Pastor/Peace/Good. And vice versa.

	▲	Gud 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		This is a perspective I’ve seen before but I just don’t buy it. People who have suffered a lot generally don’t become the happiest - often, they end living with PTSD. While people who grow up in nurturing, healthy environments enjoy happiness.
	▲	strken 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		In the context of an article about the birth of the Red Cross, what exactly does accepting the bad side of life mean? Are we to end the ICRC? Accept the Geneva Convention but make no new conventions about behaviour in war? Should we accept and return to the flies and the maggots that are so vividly described in the article as part of the aftermath of battle?