It all sounds very nice, but there are issues.
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Originally Posted by paigetheoracle
Insularity as a policy (minding your own business) builds up resources as warmongering depletes them .
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Insularity also allows you to ignore injustices on your own doorstep. Is this a good thing? Also, is an injustice on someone else doorstep any less of a good thing?
The quote implies that insularity is the only option to warmongering. This is not the case.
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Feeling pressured into action leads to rapid draining of resources as slow release of energy isn't so draining because it's small amounts over a longer period.
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Firstly, pressure may appear to be external, but is always internal. We choose to acknowledge or disregard the external environment: to act, react, or be inert.
Secondly, and quite separately, the use of resources is likely to be the same in each instance. In some instances a rapid expenditure of energy may be more appropriate. The tactics for a sprint differ from those for a marathon.
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Originally Posted by paigetheoracle
This is why patience and tolerance is better for you as an individual or nation and rash and violent action bad for you (anger rapidly depletes energy as patience gradually builds up resources).
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Again, you imply that the only alternative to patience and tolerance is rash and violent action, and that rapidly applied action is by its nature rash and violent. (I concede you do not say this, but it is strongly implicit in the both the words and the sentence structure.)
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Behind anger is fear.
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And sometimes it is simply disgust.
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This is why Eastern Philosophy advocates patience in which to learn (build up knowledge) rather than react impatiently to what little knowledge you do have.
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Do you think Western Philosophy does not advocate patience? Do you think it promotes precipitate behaviour? Do you feel Western Philosophy is a hotbed of fearful and ignorant reaction?
