Maybe if people stopped thinking of themselves, and started thinking of the other sides of things, people wouldn't hurt each other.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you think about the people trying to hurt you, rather than just trying to hurt them back, you can understand it has nothing to do with you.
I don't think I have ever tried to create things to encourage people to hurt others, or themselves.
If people do things without thinking them through, that rubs me up the wrong way.
Trauma and pain and suffering can be the very thing that dislodges a person from themselves both in awful ways and larger ways that force one to reckon with one's own life.
People can forgive each other.
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us pain or pleasure, avoiding one and pursuing the other.
There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.
Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.
Human beings never think for themselves; they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view.