What About Compassion??

[kdizzogg]

I tried to post this resonse to a mean-spirited girl's journal entry on an animal rights group's Live Journal, but I apparantly have to be accepted as a friend in order to state my opinion. I have nothing else to do with it, so I guess I will just post it here for the time being

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Man, flashbacks from my Critical Thought class a year ago.

[poke_g]

Man that was a crazy class.

That philosophy is one of the best for spreading any argument. It's easy to see where overly offensive campaigning for beliefs can go just by looking at the media all around us. Christianity, Rush Limbaugh, Mike Moore, Jack Thompson (the guy who won't stop suing video games), PETA, and more are constantly on the receiving end of harmful jokes, ridicule, and scorn from the world in return for what they do. Which in turn spurs them further on their respective missions, and the vicious cycle continues.

I wholeheartedly agree with a... passive-informative (I guess) method of arguing. Your post shares many similarities to what I've observed in Christianity and politics over the course of my life. Alot of the time, just living your life, happily, does much more good for one's beliefs than pushing them ever could.

Re: Man, flashbacks from my Critical Thought class a year ago.

[kdizzogg]

Definately. And when people see that your beliefs have had a positive influence on your life they'll hopefully take what you have to say more seriously, and you will no longer feel as if you need to push your ideals. I don't want information from some psycho yelling and smearing fake blood all over a Burger King restaraunt window; i want to learn from someone who's way of life has compelled them to live with happiness and compassion.