2007-12-06 06:53:02 · 10 answers · asked by picmybrain 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
As long as sin is perceived, Forgiveness is a must!
2007-12-06 07:20:20 · answer #1 · answered by Premaholic 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It could be a good map (not really "The Only") but it leaves a lot to be desired as a vehicle. Forgiving is usually more beneficial to the peace of mind of the one who forgives. A person who does bad things and is always forgiven does not learn that his or her actions have consequences--in short, does not learn to grow as a person. Forgiving can be a remedy to revenge, but it would only work as a universal solution to problems IF all people were nice people. I would prefer to think that people are nice, but I keep getting evidence to the contrary. So...to forgiveness, I would have to add the component of reasonable and just reparation for damage, i.e. proper, fair laws.
2007-12-06 07:12:13 · answer #2 · answered by anyone 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only if the failure for peace is caused by a transgression.
But peace can also be violated due to honest disagreements. If both sides consider themselves right, forgiveness would not apply as a solution. This case would instead require "tolerance".
Forgiving someone you can't tolerate will not bring lasting peace. Tolerating someone you can't forgive will.
2007-12-06 08:07:00 · answer #3 · answered by freebird 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It must almost always be at least a part of the process. Where there is no peace, there are usually long-simmering resentments and old grievances, which are often very difficult to redress in any meaningful way. Forgiveness is often an essential starting point.
2007-12-06 06:57:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, it is not the only road map to peace, but it is a good one nonetheless. Justice and fairplay is also a road map to peace. You'll get no peace when you are oppressing your neighbors and depriving them of their rights. Forgiveness, in these cases is not what is needed, but a direct redress of wrongs and their rights restored. People have an instinct for freedom. Push enough people into a pressure-cooker society, and deprive them of the simplest basics of life and watch it explode! In factories, where they raise Chickens, the chickens are forced into small overcrowded cages and are debeaked with a special machine to keep them from pecking each other to death. Chickens with plenty of food and plenty of room to live in are not violent like that. People are no different. Force people to live in overcrowded conditions, with a lack of good housing, good clothing and food and you'll have a war or riot on your hands fast.
If in that situation, forgiveness of your oppressors is not going to help at all, it only empowers them to tighten the noose around your neck.
People will know peace, when they are free.
People will know freedom, when those who oppress are removed from power. It is the right of the people to overthrow corrupt and evil regimes.
Those who oppress should not be forgiven their crimes against their fellow human beings, they should be removed from society permanently and by any means necessary.
This is not radicalism or revolutionary rhetoric. All the above was spoken by the American President Abraham Lincoln!
But remember the wisdom of the film Mad Max in the opening statement of how peace sometimes begets bigger and bloodier wars and while the politicos talked and talked and talked (but did nothing to redress the grievances of the people) when the destruction came it caught everybody unawares and could not be stopped.
War sucks. But if peace means slavery. I'll opt for war. The life of a slave, one oppressed, whose basic rights are not acknowledged by our corrupt governments, whose basic needs are not met, is not a life worth living.
Even though I despise the ideology of Adolf Hitler as a Jew, I have read his writtings to understand then Nazi mind, but one thing he said I agree with whole heartedly. Even an evil man can speak the truth.
"Those who will not fight for their freedom, do not deserve it. The society that does not stand up for itself will go belly up." Mein Kampf.
Forgiveness is a personal thing between one human being and another. Forgiveness is not an option for crimes like the Nazi atrocities. It is not the option either for any people who are oppressed and enslaved.
To die in battle is preferable to a life of slavery.
A Sioux warrior said it better than I ever could. This man wrote "I'd would rather die by the most horrible and painful death imaginable than languish for a single year in one of their [White Man's] prisons. I choose to fight." This man knew freedom, so knew what he'd be losing. Most of us do not even know what freedom or peace really is, so we don't miss it when we lose it.
Peace is more than a state of no-conflict. A Dictator like Hussein or Stalin can achieve this.
Peace is the state where conflict is IMPOSSIBLE because there is no need for conflict.
2007-12-06 07:18:13 · answer #5 · answered by Keira D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
True forgiveness is the realization that the error never existed outside of the mind that believed that forgiveness was necessary.
Love and blessings Don
2007-12-07 01:19:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Peace might include forgiveness if the two parties agree to settle the dispute with proper boundaries.
2007-12-06 07:00:12 · answer #7 · answered by timberline06450 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not the only road map,but trust me,it's a great place to start!
TL
2007-12-06 07:00:36 · answer #8 · answered by TL 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose genocide would work too
even the animals with their Primative thought process are violent, so logically the only way to peace is nonexistence
2007-12-06 06:58:11 · answer #9 · answered by Do I look Like I'm Joking 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
IT IS IF YOU THINK IT IS.
2007-12-06 09:09:37 · answer #10 · answered by msgtpepper 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋