The Motives of Activists

[Shin'Ar]

Catalyst?

It's funny how we take certain aspects of existence and use them to excuse everything that we want to either ignore, tolerate or gratify.

Yup, EVERYTHING is now just a 'catalyst' for something better. It's great to have such back up ain't it.

Let's say we are walking down the road and suddenly we see a little boy playing with his cat in the middle of the street and there is a large truck bearing down on them.

Is there any doubt which one you would try to pull out of the way if you only had enough time to save one?

This whole discussion about priority, honor and compassion is multifaceted and cannot be laid out so simply. Are we really going to let the child be run down and killed and excuse our ignorance by suggesting that the truck was the catalyst toward a learning lesson of some sort?

It has been made perfectly clear that compassion is a wonderful attribute.

It has also been made perfectly clear that we cannot expect the entire human race to tow one line with regard to what is considered moral and compassionate. Life is too complex and humanity too varied.

All we can do is what we think is the right thing to do in the moment. If one feels that ordering the steak on the menu is not in keeping with their ideas of compassion toward 2D beings, then please do not order the steak. But to try to burn the restaurant down because they have steak on the menu will not serve to benefit your ideal, it will only serve to enrage the innocent people that you have abused by acting in extremity. Your cause will not be what is made known, and instead the fame will be in that you would be branded as an extremist and a danger to human life.

Sure one can picket the store. One can hand out pamphlets. One can do exposes on animal cruelty, and all of these things might have some affect for the betterment of 2D beings. But if we act without consideration of compromise, and do not consider how our consequences are going to affect others, whether they might seem void of compassion toward the animals they eat or not, we do not act in the best interest of our humanity. If we choose 2d over 3d to be our only focus, and excuse that as an honor and responsibility, we are simply slapping the food out of the mouths of our neighbors simply because we choose to believe that we are somehow better than they. They may be ignorant, and desensitized, but they have as much right to choose their path as we do, and to walk that path just as we walk ours, free from persecution because others might not agree with our ways and choices.


Act on your compassion, act on your compulsion, but never act in extremity without concern for humanity.

One might consider 2D to be as important as 3D, and that there should not be any priority. But we all know that one would rush to grab the little boy first and worry about the cat later.

Our lesson in this density is that we must bring harmony to humanity, and in order to accomplish that we must consider compromise for the sake of all.

Compromise directly imposes priorities and choices that must be made in order to achieve the higher goals.

The fact that extremism refuses to compromise is the planet's greatest disease.

If one has a desire to make an aspect of this world better, and chooses to embark upon activism to achieve that honorable goal, then do so with the readiness that compromise will have to be made on certain levels, or one steps from activist into the path of extremism and fundamentalism which leads to uncompromising disharmony.

Fight your battles, but choose them wisely, and always with your humanity and it's complexity in mind.