tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9372945.post1210345821275165911..comments2023-07-16T01:48:59.413-07:00Comments on Verbal Medicine: CosmopolitanRick Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01707062453047354335noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9372945.post-91204301217742753582011-01-26T16:20:30.604-08:002011-01-26T16:20:30.604-08:00Though I totally agree with you, in this issue it ...Though I totally agree with you, in this issue it is not the what, but the how that is the issue. If you and I become cosmopolitan, then how do we deal with the parochial dictator, or insurgents that though perhaps unwilling to die, are more than willing to let others die for them? There is an instinctual comfort for most people, especially older people knowing their piece of the world is as they think it should be. Potential changes to that are perceived as dangerous and radical. Usually the next step is a law, then enforcement, and if necessary violence. All in the name of maintaining peace. I have often advocated that all people are part of one another, and that to harm another is to really harm myself. However it is hard to think that when that other is a threat with a gun, and it is not me they are threatening, but my wife or child. How do we make small minded people see that everyone deserves a chance to live their own life in their own way. How do we deal with people that just won't, because no matter how we try they will always exist. The idea is correct, but how we get enough people to see this so that the lines of nations begin to blur and people all believe they have a say in how the human races uses the limited resources and space on our rapidly shrinking world? Short of eliminating 90% of the earths population and letting everyone go wherever they want again, I do not have an good answer. I have lots of easy answers, but no good ones.Wizardstormhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02083611379182044637noreply@blogger.com