Bullies don’t pick on everyone. Daamn. 🥴 this post really made me think. Made me rethink a bunch of things too.
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“Love and kindness is in short supply.” This is something I wonder about. So, the idea of saying “fight back” may feel like it’s “encouraging”violence, to some people. But then, I wonder, when there are people who are BANKING on you showing them love and kindness whilst simultaneously REFUSING to exhibit any and continuing to be violent themselves, spread hate and create unsafe environments, at some point, perhaps we need to ask ourselves; is this dynamic fair and balanced?
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They say an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind, but then if someone is going around just taking eyes... and if they don’t stop even when you firmly and politely stand your ground, and then NO ONE around steps in to STOP THEM or protect the people being attacked, does this seem like a logical choice? A safe choice?
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And this is a another reeeally important question I have to remind myself to ask; would a person who respects you and cares for you WANT you to abandon your safety, dignity and humanity like this? I think, no. They would not. Would a society that cares for you want you to compromise your safety, dignity and humanity? No, it would not.
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So where I’m at now, is that if it get to the stage where individuals or individual groups get to the point where they have to fight back, then somewhere along the way, they’ve probably been failed by their community or a society. And also, i thinj it isn’t so much that love and kindness is in short supply, but that it is being demanded of different people and different communities very unequally.
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Lots of love and strength. Let’s stop raising bullies. ✨
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