Dignity & Respect

 

Everyone, or most everyone, sincerely or hypocritically claims to want to treat others with dignity and respect. Okay, so why is there so much needless suffering and cruelty ( hurt caused by human malice, not natural loss) in the world.?

 

First, we all have some free will that we exercise. We have at least an implicit sense of right and wrong, so to varying degrees, depending how awake we are, we are responsible for our choices. If we choose freely then, at least to some minimal degree, then when we hurt others sadistically without cause, or more damaging, is our willingness to tolerate and endure, masochistically, being hurt, without cause, by cruel others, we will to bring suffering upon wretched humanity.

 

Second, without God and the Golden Rule in our lives, we do not want so much to treat others with dignity and respect—And we lie to hide our malevolent intentions out of fear of being punished legally and socially; we also lie so the we can in secret scheme to hurt our victims before they are alert to being attacked so they are unable to withstand our ambushing them.

 

We do not esteem ourselves so we group-live and expect and look forward to being hurt and knocked around by others since we think that being mistreated is our destiny and our just deserts.

 

Third, we group-live, run in packs, join, and do not self-realize. As groupists, we hate ourselves and others, and with our collectivist culture and value system reinforcing this sick way of living, we easily justify treating none with dignity and respect, and then refuse to fight back when we are treated with dignity and respect.

 

The Mother, the Father, Jesus, and the Good Spirits are all individualists. Being loving divine figures, they treat people with dignity and respect, and that is an individual-to-individual dynamic.

 

My conclusion: if we self-realize, individual live, love ourselves, others and these benevolent divine beings, then we will be inclined and well-positioned to treat others with dignity and respect and fight back every time someone tries to treat us without dignity and respect.