Perhaps how we react to when we think of people who suffer thru infliction of cruelty, pain & violation of their human rights and to those who inflict these things, is the pain that we personally experienced in our lives that is yet to be accepted.
On the one hand, intellectualizing may help us to come to a rational reason why people engage in such violence and cruelty. Then on the other, what colors our thoughts is our own subjective experience around violence and cruelty and the pain that we each feel within.
And so the elephant in the room may be in a 'place' within each of us that has yet to reach acceptance and forgiveness by processing our own experiences around violence & cruelty, whether it being bullied in past, being treated cruelly by others, feeling oppressed and so on so on. Personally, having acceptance and forgiveness with self goes a long way when faced with this situation (both directly experiencing and vicariously experiencing).
On the one hand, intellectualizing may help us to come to a rational reason why people engage in such violence and cruelty. Then on the other, what colors our thoughts is our own subjective experience around violence and cruelty and the pain that we each feel within.
And so the elephant in the room may be in a 'place' within each of us that has yet to reach acceptance and forgiveness by processing our own experiences around violence & cruelty, whether it being bullied in past, being treated cruelly by others, feeling oppressed and so on so on. Personally, having acceptance and forgiveness with self goes a long way when faced with this situation (both directly experiencing and vicariously experiencing).
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