If you are not part of the solution, are you part of the problem?

Answer 1

The problem stands in the way of the solution.

I sometimes imagine the warmakers compartmentalizing their thoughts as they slot evidence of human carnage and suffering neatly away as collateral damage. I often wish that just once these sophisticates of slaughter could close their eyes and see the misery and death they produce in the name of their pet ideology, religious aphrodisiac, or mythical supreme being. I wish that the people they lead, the subjects riled into frenzied warmaking, could close their eyes and see the steady stream of the war dead, the maimed and injured, the moaning and groaning, the starving and diseased. I wish the dead could file by one-by-one each making eye contact with them for just a second. Seeing the faces of the 20th century war dead for just one second each would require 6.4 years of non-stop viewing. Humanity congratulates itself for having made incredible scientific and technological progress during the 20th century. Yet in the years spanning 1900 through 2000, an estimated 203-million people died as a result of wars (M. Cherif Bassouni, Chicago Tribune, 25 Oct. 1998). Progress like beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Sadly to many industrial warfare, the mechanized wholesale killing of multitudes, is progress.
While inflicting horrendous horror upon itself humankind has the audacity of proclaiming that we are made in the image and likeness of God. It is humanity, however, that has created God in its own image and likeness. The supreme being that we embrace is like us, a vengeful entity that condemns those who disobey. Our leaders, like our invented God, declare, "If you are not with us, you are against us." Accepting a condemning God makes it easy for us to condemn each other. How convenient for us that we can assuage our guilt through an invented supreme being who is on our side. The atomic bomb, which many in the United States believe was divinely given, is an example. How convenient to believe that God gave the United States this awesome weapon with a divine sanction to it, not once, but twice, used on civilian targets. Since most of humanity believes in some version of a supreme being, God winds up supporting opposing sides in war. Allahhu akbar! Praise the Lord! Both phrases are testament to the same vision of homo sapiens' self-grandeur. And yet, humanity sees itself as special in the universe audaciously declaring itself to be the end result of "intelligent design". How bizarre.

Answer 2

Not a valid argument. People will use this in an effort to get people to join their efforts or step aside and let the people get to work. It is an accusation without proof. This is one of those arguments a high school debater will use when they have no other arguments.

Many people have used this in discusions about the fight with terrorism. If someone criticizes the goverment and some of its actions then this "argument" is pulled out and then the person criticizing the government has their patriotism called into question because they did nothing more than exercise their rights.

Answer 3

Yes. I have said this many times.

Everyone can do something to help our country:

donate money (even small change)
tutor kids
get clothes to shelters (homeless and domestic abuse types)
work with folk in their area
mentoring "at risk" kids (like in Big Brothers and Sisters)
get food to the elderly
care packages and care to the disabled and elderly vets
writing Congress people
VOTING
even praying and holding a good thought for people in our country in trouble or sick and for the leaders of the country

If everyone, rich, middle classed, and poor would do SOMETHING, however small, watch how fast this country would change...

Answer 4

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Answer 5

It's unclear how this constitutes a question, but we'll go with it. I thought that if you weren't part of the solution, you were part of the precipitate? At least that's what I learned in chemistry. ;)

Answer 6

Unless you are the problem and then you can become the solution.

Answer 7

I guess I'm in limbo because I don't have a clue as to what you are referring to

Answer 8

Hey its a talking cookie fortune

Answer 9

Not at all. Try 'watcher of fools' parade'. Go fight your own psychotic war.

Answer 10

Only if it's my problem.