jhough37
soon to be in Isesaki!
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I have seen this subject almost brought up in a couple other threads on the board and so I decided to start a thread specifically about it. Here is the problem: When you are looking at something else, be it a person, or a culture, and they are doing something that seems, to you, to be self defeating, harmfull, or just wrong to themselves or others; do you step in and point out the problem, or should you? Should you try and change the behavior?
This is a question that gets to the fundamentals of many of the social realtionships in our world. Many cultures have practices that others find distasteful (caste systems, sexual submission, self mutilation), or maybe they just aren't behaving the way that others think they should (the reasoning behind much of the colonization of the world was to "civilize" people and somehow validate them because they were backward) or maybe someone is abusing their power and basically causing trouble (Hitler, Pol Pot, Mussolini, Pinchot, Milosovic, maybe Bush or Blair or whomever). But all of these views come from groups, sometimes it is a larger group, sometime it is a small group, when does it become okay to try to force change in something?
This is a question that gets to the fundamentals of many of the social realtionships in our world. Many cultures have practices that others find distasteful (caste systems, sexual submission, self mutilation), or maybe they just aren't behaving the way that others think they should (the reasoning behind much of the colonization of the world was to "civilize" people and somehow validate them because they were backward) or maybe someone is abusing their power and basically causing trouble (Hitler, Pol Pot, Mussolini, Pinchot, Milosovic, maybe Bush or Blair or whomever). But all of these views come from groups, sometimes it is a larger group, sometime it is a small group, when does it become okay to try to force change in something?