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It is to be observed that many of mankind’s great cultural and spiritual leaders felt that foregoing judgement and feeling forgiveness was the Way to peace This is a message from the Tao Te Ching , from the Lord Buddha, Christ, Mohammed, etc.
History suggests that no matter how noble the cause judging it good relative to others produces conflict. God’s word in the Holy Koran as given to Mohammed saw conflict as impossible in a world directed by the one all-powerful God. On this view conflict must be in man’s mind not the Universe’s or God’s. If conflict appears it must be in our perception not actuality. War must then be a form we see not a process that is.
Looking to the form of things often obscures. Observable diversity in form is huge. Thus form appears complex. However the process creating it is often simple. Plant use energy to grow and survive. They use two sources the sun and nutrients in soil. In struggling to exist and grow each plant has to accept existing users of both. It has no choice but to adapt to their existence and find its own way to the sun and the soil’s nutrients. Adaptive co-operation works confrontation not.
In biology apart from man fights to the death within species are in frequent. Killing for food is co-operative symbiosis not competition. To destroy one’s prey is to destroy oneself. The genius of man’s evolution is that what is seen as human aggression can be seen as constructive social evolutionary at-one-ment.
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