so we have a certain belief, and we try to force it on others, try to make others think the way we do, we try to make others believe the same thing that we do, and what if we succeed? what do we get out of it at the end?
2007-12-28 08:02:21 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
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2007-12-28 08:09:39 · answer #1 · answered by tuberk768 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have a belief does not make your belief better or worse than other beliefs. A belief implies relativity, something without right or wrong, something without an absolute truth, something that stem from free will and personal opinion. Hitler was not a good example because his action is wrong, plain and sample, and it is not a matter of his belief that justified his act.
Having said that, you can persuade others to share your beliefs, but it is up to them to decide whether or not they want to do so. If you force it on others, it does not become their beliefs, because they never shared that view through their free will. In that case, you didn't achieve anything by forcing your beliefs into other. A belief that is not genuine is nothing more than a lie which one constantly drowns oneself in.
2007-12-28 10:05:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, that depends on what YOU believe. What ever your beliefs are, you could get something whether it's a friend or your ticket to heaven.
Just try to think about it like this: Say you were friends with Adolf Hitler and you made him think the way you think. Guess what? You just saved millions of lives. Isn't that worth it.
How about this: Your friend has a natural talent for music and you inflict the belief upon her, make her life happier, she becomes famous, and you, yourself, have changed all lives.
Your friend has a knack for medicines. You give her a belief of a life with meaning. She finds a cure to AIDS. Look what you have done.
Or even on a smaller scale than all that. You see your friend suffering and help them and they are eternally in your debt. And sometime later, you're having a rough time with life and this friend feels obliged to help you. You have just gotten yourself a friend. A life source.
2007-12-28 08:17:21 · answer #3 · answered by My Name Doesn't Fit Here 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Swami Vivekananda says that people who succeed in converting others or making others follow them by their will power are actually harming the society very much.
He says although temporarily one may excite a person by exerting his will power on that person, he is actually weakening the will power of that person.
One thing which is right for us may not suit some others, then how can we try to force on other people, it is wrong.
If we succeed then that person whom we have converted may suffer as his will power has lessened, that person may feel that he is weak, he may even feel that his new beliefs are wrong.
We get nothing from that, only a bad karma.
2007-12-28 14:29:32 · answer #4 · answered by The Ranger 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only a belief can be forced, because all beliefs are untrue. Truth need not be forced. It is self-evident.
You believe because you are not sure. Your belief may shatter at any time. Belief is very impotent. And only impotent people would like to believe. Because nothing costs in believing. To search for the truth and finding it oneself is very arduous. We live in the shadow of belief which is very easy. No labour is required to believe.
And if you try to impose your impotency (belief) on others, and what if you succeed in it, you are creating more impotent people around you, you are sharing your impotency with them, and the result is the gathering of impotent people. All those who believe are impotent, because they dont want to search on their own, they rely on others to know what is Truth.
2007-12-29 17:33:36 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
An affliction.
The idea of sharing your faiths or beliefs is to bring the other around to your way of thinking through intelligent debate.
Otherwise it's a plain infliction of your values on someone else, they would be afflicted.
If someone doesn't agree with you leave it alone.
2007-12-28 08:28:21 · answer #6 · answered by the old dog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where is the guarantee that your views are false-proof so that you could imposed it on others? Truth is often conditioned by constraints of time and space and it is not going to be sacrosanct for all time to come. It is therefore a kind of violence to impose your belief on others.
2007-12-31 21:33:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-18 10:32:13 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hatred and animosity(suppressed or expressed) against the forcing by the forced and in the long run it defeats the very purpose.Only the person with intolerance of uncertainty,intolerance of divergence, will attempt to force people, out of insecurity, and by that way he will not be able to face the truth and evolve!
2007-12-31 17:06:56 · answer #9 · answered by Thimmappa M.S. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We get the satisfaction of knowing that someone else believes or sees things the way we do, and then we feel good knowing that we are not alone....
2007-12-28 08:10:53 · answer #10 · answered by BRANDON S 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
we get nothing out of it accept hurting those on whom we impose our beliefs
2007-12-29 00:19:49 · answer #11 · answered by punetigerwhite 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋