It'd have been a lot more helpful if he could have summed up in a few short words precisely what that hard work *is*. It doesn't seem to fit well into English; I don't suppose Spanish is any easier.
As near as I can tell from my own experience, it's a form of shaming -- one behaves with such moral integrity as to shame one's opponents into inaction, from which position their evil works can be dismantled. Problem is, this only works when one's opponents *have* a sense of shame. Sometimes they do, other times one collects a new set of lumps if one is lucky, or a new crop of dead friends if one is not.
... as William James pointed out, in his essay on The Moral Equivalent of War.
True, Gandhi, King, and the Albigensians do prove that you get lumps or worse with non-violent resistance, but even when the victors have no sense of shame, as with the Inquisitors (at least some of whom most have felt shame, I imagine, even if others really believed that the Church was right?), still, the Inquisitors themselves noted with admiration the courage of the Albigensians as they went to the stake. That impression, which survived the Cathars themselves, made a difference, it seems.
Peace, ShiraDestinie UN Date: Thursday, October 5. 12014 H.E. (Holocene Era)
On Monday, October 13, 2014 8:47 AM, selki - DW Comment dwnull@dreamwidth.org wrote:
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It'd have been a lot more helpful if he could have summed up in a few short words precisely what that hard work is. It doesn't seem to fit well into English; I don't suppose Spanish is any easier.
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As near as I can tell from my own experience, it's a form of shaming -- one behaves with such moral integrity as to shame one's opponents into inaction, from which position their evil works can be dismantled. Problem is, this only works when one's opponents *have* a sense of shame. Sometimes they do, other times one collects a new set of lumps if one is lucky, or a new crop of dead friends if one is not.
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True, Gandhi, King, and the Albigensians do prove that you get lumps or worse with non-violent resistance, but even when the victors have no sense of shame, as with the Inquisitors (at least some of whom most have felt shame, I imagine, even if others really believed that the Church was right?), still, the Inquisitors themselves noted with admiration the courage of the Albigensians as they went to the stake. That impression, which survived the Cathars themselves, made a difference, it seems.
Peace,
ShiraDestinie
UN Date: Thursday, October 5. 12014 H.E. (Holocene Era)
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Could you elaborate, please?
On Monday, October 13, 2014 8:47 AM, selki - DW Comment dwnull@dreamwidth.org wrote:
selki replied to a comment you left in a Dreamwidth entry "QotD". The comment they replied to was: It'd have been a lot more helpful if he could have summed up in a few short words precisely what that hard work is. It doesn't seem to fit well into English; I don't suppose Spanish is any easier.