1. Activist Feedback
Rick Hershey writes:
I handed out 1600 CVA booklets at Gas South Arena in Duluth, GA [near
Atlanta] for Winter Jam. As usual, most of the booklets went to kids. The
rain stopped after the first half hour. One woman in line kindly offered me
an extra ticket that she had to the event.
2. Living in Peace - A Human Challenge
If we seek to generate communities of love, compassion, respect, and
peace, it will be helpful to examine how humans learned to live peaceably.
Natural selection favors helping our kin, with whom we share substantial
amount of genetic material, and it also favors helping those members of our
community who will similarly help us if we were in need. It is possible that
a major driving force in the development of the enlarged and more capable
human brain was a need to learn which members of one’s community are
trustworthy and which ones are not. Anthropologists have estimated that
primal human communities had a maximum size of about 150 persons, after
which it was hard to identify and recall with accuracy who should be
trusted.
Fast forward to today’s society, in which many people live among a million
strangers. Many of our interactions are with people we will never see again.
We are unable to enforce trustworthiness with the implicit threat that, if
they deceive us, they will come to regret their deception if they come later
to us for assistance. And, the threat of violence toward those who commit
acts of deceit is not conducive to peaceful living. Large communities often
use laws enforced by the government to prevent dishonest dealings, but this
is a very imperfect tool. It is too costly to apply to everyday
interactions. Also, there are kinds of misrepresentation that do not lend
themselves well to legal remedies, such as a promise of fidelity to a lover
or the claim by a salesperson that a product will improve the buyer’s
quality of life.
We need goodwill for a large group of people to live peaceably with each
other. I will consider source(s) of goodwill next. Ultimately, I will relate
sociological reflections to biblical insights on the challenge for humans to
live together peacefully.
Stephen R. Kaufman, M.D.
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