PREVENT HARM!: LET US DENOUNCE INJUSTICE

To achieve a better world to live in, it is necessary to denounce and condemn all types of abuses: those coming from the right and the left, from above and below, from the front and behind. Those committed by fascists, but also by communists; those by Israelis, but likewise those by Arabs; those by Muslims and also those by Christians, Hindus, atheists…

The most effective way to end abuse is through the education of children and pedagogy with adults, raising awareness and convincing them. However, social pressure is also a necessary tool, especially with the most recalcitrant aggressors. When wrapping with a spoon is not enough, let us prick a little with the fork, and if that is not effective, let us act a bit more forcefully with the knife.

Social pressure includes disapproval, reporting, judgment, and condemnation. It is effective because we are all sensitive to social rejection and sanctions. Beyond a certain level of opposition and negative consequences, people tend to avoid victimizing behaviors.

Remaining silent in the face of abuse is disastrous, as it leads to impunity. And this is the perfect soil for the plant of evil to grow. He who looks the other way is a contributor to it.

Read PREVENT HARM!: Let us speak loud and clear against injustice

Read LET US LIVE WITHOUT HARMING!: Let us not be accomplices or contributors to injustice

Read LIVING WITHOUT HARMING: Let us not deny or minimize evils

And much worse still than the above is when the reporting of an abuse and the fight against it are frowned upon. He who holds this attitude is not a contributor, but clearly an accomplice to it, no matter how much he sometimes wraps himself in a cloak of false sanctity. Read more at…

HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT HARMING?: Let us remove the mask of toxic self-righteousness

FOR A WORLD WITHOUT HARM: Let us not be positive toward injustice

For example, in many countries, including Japan, it is frowned upon for a woman to make public that she has been raped or sexually abused. Not long ago, this also happened in the West. This is the world upside down, as the problem is never the raped woman who reports the crime of which she has been a victim, but those who view her with disapproval or even imprison her instead of the rapist, as still happens today in some traditionalist Muslim-majority countries, such as Dubai.

There are those who consider reporting as something aggressive or annoying. But when addressing the end of a specific type of villainy, those who are truly displeased that the subject is brought to light are usually those who are part of said evil, whether as perpetrators or as accomplices. Because otherwise, why would they be so bothered?

Therefore, those who are most bothered when a specific abuse is brought to light are the ones who most need healing by confronting it and the damage it causes. They are the ones who most need to become aware of the issue to change their position on it. Because this is the first step for them to undergo the metamorphosis from problem to solution—that is, to stop being part of the grievance and start being part of the fight against it.

In fact, we all need to heal our malignancy to become good people, as we all genetically have a harmful side. And we have all harmed innocent people—some to certain victims and others to different ones, some in one way and others in another. For this reason, some are more displeased when certain abuses are brought to the surface, while others experience this with different ones.

But that displeasure one suffers can be the first step toward