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you said it all

posted by Star5_ on March 8, 2008 at 5:04 PM | link to this | reply

You never know how maddening a single person can turn out to be. Look

at Hitler and Charlie Manson, and whoever that guy was at Jonestown....

posted by WindTapper on March 7, 2008 at 5:08 AM | link to this | reply

I think that NO one person can create say a big scale war situation, but when it comes to some situations, there is one person who begins the negative descend. Think about it. I have been on both ends of the stick a few times. Few years back, I was the one who reacted harshly to everything this one person would say to me. Later I sat myself down with paper and pen.......realized it was because I was incredibly hurt. I promised myself that I would never be that way again, and I have not been ever since. Now, I'm on the receiving end, and there is someone who ALWAYS reacts harshly even if I say something as nice as "hi", "how was work"? I believe that we ALL need to understand what stresses us out personally, and NOT take it out on the person(s) we love. We need to know how to defer and tackle our own internal struggles so as to NOT hurt the people we care about, OR even more so the people who care about us!!!

posted by majesticvisions on March 2, 2008 at 4:53 AM | link to this | reply

responsibility = ability to respond

When someone responds with violence, usually that person is not "responding" in the truest sense of the word. That person is "reacting." The first party can do something incredibly dreadful, but the second party can only respond or react to the circumstance, experience, etc. If one reacts in violence, it only escalates the situation. If one "responds" patiently and compassionately to violence, there is a potential for neutrality and therefore peace and harmony.

posted by Wild_Grace on March 2, 2008 at 12:01 AM | link to this | reply

I agree with the other comments friend, no one person can start a war by

themsleves.

posted by Kabu on February 29, 2008 at 8:13 PM | link to this | reply

I say that no one person is at fault

I believe in personal responsibility. If you are in the middle of catastrophic situations, even as a victim you had a hand, however unseen, in the melee.