Inability to gauge, inability to have true knowledge of level of oppression in society equates to varying levels of investment in reducing oppression. Same goes for making Peace, if the World thinks it needs 100 people to make Peace, it will invest in 100 people, if it thinks it needs 1000, it will invest in 1000, if the World sees it needs 8 billion to make Peace, will it invest sufficiently?
Many likely do not invest in Peace, Peacemaking because they are unsure of their impact, might feel like their words that have been trained less than ideally might be used against them in legalistic ways. Less grace in society at times factors into less grace in society. Inability to see impact is in by design – if I invest in a charity, I might be unlikely to see the impact during my lifetime. Raising comprehension of value created and value delivered takes time, perception, and comprehension that not all people have time to invest.
Contributions that are known to be less than ideal (Humans are not perfect) equates to faith necessary that God will help them be utilized in more ideal ways. If I have no Faith, if I see a charity I am unable to verify, would I give knowing they might not use my funding in the ways stated?
Working against Oppression, making contributions in oppressive conditions have potential to reduce Faith, investment might further enable power, power that oppressors might misuse. Oppressors might not be the best word, it ties a human that is not perfect to the evil that is oppression. Dehumanization is in itself a form of oppression, and society needs to be able to negate correlation of evil from the people that perpetrate it. Not being oppressive in an oppressive society, in a society that is less than ideal oppression out is not always simple or straightforward, less oppression in advance is power in not always fully appreciated ways, fully understood ways.
Both comprehension and insufficient comprehension factor into gains for better in an oppressive society. Well intentioned matters, well intentioned backed up with real support matters.
There is a saying “The path to hell is paved on good intentions”. That might be equated to good intentions are bad, so better to have bad intentions, only self-profiting intentions, which might be turned up as only valuable, only logical course in an oppressive systemic environment. Motivated right, Right intentions will have sufficient comprehension raised, sufficient obfuscation reduced to factor into decision making is far from a guarantee, especially under an oppressive environment. Bad intentions not right, good intentions not always aimed in right directions.
Negate reinforcement of oppressive systems, simple? Status quo has potential to reinforce (negate change is not always good), fighting might strengthen – far from always ideal. Humans taught “Don’t judge” equal ideal accessors of personal motivations for good and bad? It profits me reinforces support, Capitalism, which reinforces Freedom, Freedom of Speech potential for slippery slope greed to ideal value-added system. Choose not to win, choose to lose? The line of reasoning ideals less than ideally.
A personal win might not always be a societal win and is not always simple to gauge. A team win, A corporate win might not always be a societal win and is not always simple to gauge. Less simple to gauge has shown precedent for not always working ideally for all parties. Less than ideal visibility and comprehension factors into decision making around wins, losses, and maximizing profit – as if standing outside of a cave at times.
“Blessed are the Peacemakers” – Matthew 5:9, Peacemaking is a risk (“no risk no reward”), and has potential for more ideally turned up, those that turn up Peacemakers Peacemakers as well? Blessed are the rebroadcasters? Factors into max profit?
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