{"id":56945,"date":"2024-03-13T10:26:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T09:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/live-without-harming\/publications\/let-us-say-no-to-normalizing-certain-abuses\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:06:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:06:01","slug":"say-no-to-the-normalization-of-certain-abuses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/say-no-to-the-normalization-of-certain-abuses\/","title":{"rendered":"SAY NO TO NORMALIZING CERTAIN ABUSES"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"56945\" class=\"elementor elementor-56945 elementor-25726\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c32aa0d elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"c32aa0d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-11e1eda\" data-id=\"11e1eda\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aef7a2f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"aef7a2f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">LIVE WITHOUT HARMING! STOP NORMALIZING CERTAIN ABUSES<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5b720aa elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5b720aa\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-559c8e0\" data-id=\"559c8e0\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8e6edd0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8e6edd0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/OIG4.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-25781\" title=\"LET US SAY NO TO NORMALIZING CERTAIN ABUSES\" src=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/OIG4-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/OIG4-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/OIG4-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/OIG4-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/OIG4.jpeg 351w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every society has injustices that are forbidden, but other wrongs that are normalized; some outrages are condemned and others allowed. Some types of filth are thrown in the trash, but others are placed on a shelf as if they were a vase or a decorative figurine. <span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size );\">For example, Jews found the child human sacrifices practiced by the Canaanites cruel. However, they considered it right to stone to death a son who disobeyed his father, since that is what the Old Testament commands; the disobedient son was labeled as &#8220;someone it is acceptable to victimize&#8221;.<\/span> <\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/avoid-labels-that-give-a-free-pass-to-harm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read LIVE WITHOUT HARM: Let us avoid labels that are a blank cheque to cause harm<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spanish conquerors in the Americas considered the mass human sacrifices of the Aztecs and Mayans ruthless and uncivilized, but not the act of setting their killer dogs on homosexual Indigenous people to tear them apart, or burning at the stake natives or converted Jews who did not follow Catholic doctrine and ritual to the letter.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And British imperialists were not very different: in India they were horrified by the Hindu Sati ceremony, in which living widows were burned at the stake. Yet at the same time, in Africa they had normalized the use of whipping as an everyday practice to achieve the productivity they wanted from Black people on their plantations\u2014to the point that they debated how many lashes to give and on which parts of the body, but not the fact of giving them. They also considered it acceptable that, in the metropolis, those who rebelled against the authorities were dragged by horses from prison to the place of public execution. And once there, they were hanged until they were ALMOST dead, then their genitals were cut off, their entrails torn out WHILE THEY WERE STILL ALIVE, and finally their head and other parts of their body were cut off.    <\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And even today, this double standard persists: some abuses are fought, while others are allowed. Thus, in many countries with a majority of traditionalist Christians or Muslims, theft is prohibited, but the kidnapping of innocent homosexuals to imprison them is considered lawful. <\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/be-impartial-and-do-not-apply-double-standards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT HARM?: Let us be impartial and not apply double standards<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/never-harm-the-lgbti-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LET US NOT HARM the LGTBI+ community<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or in many countries with a majority <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/reform-sexism-in-islam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Muslim religion<\/u><\/a><\/span>, murder is punishable, but the stigmatization (within the family, circles of friends, and at every level) and civil death of those whose only &#8220;crime&#8221; is having openly left Islam\u2014whom they call apostates\u2014is socially encouraged. And as if that were not enough, this normalization of injustice is reinforced by laws that annul their marriages, deprive them of their children, inheritances, and property, and in some fundamentalist countries, even their lives. <\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another example in countries with a <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/no-danes\/publicaciones\/reformemos-la-parte-danina-del-cristianismo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>traditionalist Christian<\/u><\/a><\/span> majority is banning rape, yet seeing it as natural to ruin the life of a 15-year-old girl who has become pregnant and has had an abortion of a fetus that still has no nervous system and therefore does not feel. She has caused no suffering to anyone, given that the fetus is still a non-sentient living being, like a plant; yet society causes her profound psychological and existential harm by keeping her imprisoned for many years\u2014in many countries under appalling conditions\u2014where she may be abused. <\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even in the most civilized Western countries (or the least uncivilized, depending on how you look at it), many atrocities, such as torture, are rejected. However, others are socially and legally accepted, such as the kidnapping, imprisonment in cages, exploitation, and mistreatment of non-human sentient beings in <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/stop-exploitation-and-abuse-on-factory-farms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>factory farms and <\/u><\/a><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/no-to-animal-testing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">laboratories<\/a><\/span><\/span>.  This is especially true if it is for a &#8220;good cause,&#8221; such as doing it for our children and loved ones. <\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/never-harm-animals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LET US NOT HARM non-human animals!<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/reject-narratives-that-justify-cruelty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FOR A WORLD WITHOUT HARM: Let us reject narratives that justify evil<\/a> <\/em><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another example is the cruelty of putting people in <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/lets-avoid-imprisonment-as-far-as-possible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>prison<\/u><\/a><\/span> for years\u2014with the moral harm that entails\u2014and forcing them to live alongside psychopaths, when they have caused no suffering to anyone and have simply breached tax, labor, or urban-planning regulations. Or when they have performed euthanasia for someone who requested it, causing no harm at all\u2014quite the opposite, as it ended their patient\u2019s suffering. <\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/lets-avoid-imprisonment-as-far-as-possible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE ART OF LIVING WITHOUT HARM: Avoid prison whenever possible<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The same can be said about the normalization of bombing, killing, and destroying the homes of residents of territories that have decided to become independent because an overwhelming majority wants it\u2014as has happened in Donbas at the hands of Ukraine and with the complicity of the West. Or, on a much smaller scale, in Catalonia, where police officers beat innocents whose only &#8220;crime&#8221; was voting in a referendum that the vast majority of that region wanted. <\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the end, a crime is always a crime, no matter how socially accepted and legalized it may be\u2014just as excrement is always excrement, even if someone decides to turn it into a divinity.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All these kinds of social normalization have to do with the <a href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/do-not-follow-the-herd-to-cause-harm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><u>herd instinct<\/u><\/span><\/a>, <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/do-no-harm-be-open-and-avoid-harmful-gregariousness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>gregariousness<\/u><\/a><\/span>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/preserve-the-good-and-change-the-harmful\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><u>the desire to preserve simply for the sake of preserving<\/u><\/span><\/a> that are so typical of human beings. But above all, it is related to each individual\u2019s level of <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/enjoy-positive-self-interest-and-avoid-the-negative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>negative selfishness<\/u><\/a><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/no-danes\/publicaciones\/dejemonos-llevar-por-nuestro-sentido-de-la-justicia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>innate sense of justice<\/u><\/a><\/span>. All of these are different faces of the same polyhedron.  <\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, the more psychopathic, egocentric, herd-following, tribal, and traditionalist a person is, the more they normalize the wrongdoing accepted by their society. And the more just, principled, noble, mentally independent, open-minded, and reformist a person is, the more they seek to put an end to that normalization.  <\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/reform-society-to-make-it-better\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LET US BUILD A BETTER WORLD!: Reform society <\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because of this mental cage, which has a strong component of amorality, it is common for human beings to see clearly the evil of injustices typical of other cultures, but not those that are normalized in our own. LET US OPEN THE CAGE NOW AND GET OUT OF IT!<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AND LET US BE CIVILIZED! We see humans of the past as ignorant and archaic because they had practices that were normal to them, but barbaric to us. But in the future, they will probably see us in the same way for the very same reason.  <\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What can we do to achieve the de-normalization of all kinds of abuses?:<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>1. Raise awareness among adults<\/strong> by sharing, persuading, and educating. This can even include applying <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/report-injustice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>social pressure<\/u><\/a><\/span>. <\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>2. Educate children<\/strong> and adolescents, since they are like a book that is partly blank, and what we write in it will likely remain.<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/reform-society-to-make-it-better\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AVOID HARM! Share and persuade so that they do not cause harm<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/reform-society-to-make-it-better\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AVOID HARMING! Educate children in the ethics of kindness<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you for doing so to build a <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/reform-society-to-make-it-better\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>more decent world to live in,<\/u><\/a><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4b3257e elementor-share-buttons--view-icon elementor-share-buttons--shape-circle elementor-share-buttons--align-center elementor-share-buttons--skin-gradient elementor-grid-0 elementor-share-buttons--color-official elementor-widget elementor-widget-share-buttons\" data-id=\"4b3257e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"share-buttons.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-grid\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-grid-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"elementor-share-btn elementor-share-btn_whatsapp\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\trole=\"button\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttabindex=\"0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\taria-label=\"Share on whatsapp\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-share-btn__icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"fab fa-whatsapp\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-grid-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"elementor-share-btn elementor-share-btn_email\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\trole=\"button\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttabindex=\"0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\taria-label=\"Share on email\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-share-btn__icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"fas fa-envelope\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-grid-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"elementor-share-btn elementor-share-btn_x-twitter\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\trole=\"button\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttabindex=\"0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\taria-label=\"Share on x-twitter\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-share-btn__icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"fab fa-x-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-grid-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"elementor-share-btn elementor-share-btn_facebook\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\trole=\"button\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttabindex=\"0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\taria-label=\"Share on facebook\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-share-btn__icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"fab fa-facebook\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-grid-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"elementor-share-btn elementor-share-btn_linkedin\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\trole=\"button\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttabindex=\"0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\taria-label=\"Share on linkedin\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-share-btn__icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"fab fa-linkedin\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9ed5723 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9ed5723\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-dbc9fdd\" data-id=\"dbc9fdd\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fd60d97 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fd60d97\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong> Xavier Paya <\/strong><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><b>Live Without Harming initiative<\/b><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #e5ac1b;\"><a style=\"color: #e5ac1b; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1705739656386000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0r_zOrwTRU9jKMsNGkX-Vn\">www.institutodelbienestar.com<\/a><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">LET&#8217;S NOT HARM ANYONE, except in legitimate self-defense against the<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> agr<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">esso<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">r<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); color: #ffffff;\">Read: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); text-decoration-line: underline; color: #e5ac1b;\"><a style=\"color: #e5ac1b;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/no-danes\/publicaciones\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1705739656386000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1Y-BstuMG-ZGz1yLfoAV21\">other articles from DO NOT HARM!&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-14bcb66 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"14bcb66\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInDown&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>With the <b>Vivir Sin Da\u00f1ar initiative<\/b>, we strive to prevent you from suffering any <\/strong><\/span><strong style=\"color: #ffffff; 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