Great post indigo, I'll have to write one up.
This part: Do you greet the imperfections and wrongdoings of others with a desire to punish or with a more compassionate desire?
I think is vital. We don't know other people's experience of the world, the best we can do is embrace them in love. Sometimes that means tough love, but forgiveness should always play a role imo.
I think this world will change in an instant once people learn to love instead of condemn or judge or blame
Very true. I recall watching a video from I think Sweden (some Scandinavian country) in which they were showing their prisons, even for murderers. They were isolated from the main society, but given freedom, respect, a beautiful environment in contact with nature and trained in skills they could use once they got out. I can't even describe just how different it was in so many ways from how the US does prisons. Basically they were rehabilitating members of their community, not punishing those they considered to be animals. Their recidivism rate is of course way, way lower than ours in the US is. No surprise though. This system isn't meant to rehabilitate. It is meant to punish as far as citizens are concerned, and profit from slave labor as far as the prison industry is concerned.
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