Right and Oppression
It is easy to want to say myself, me when associated with right, as a customer service thing.
Who is to clean the dishes, me, right.
Who is to clean my room, me, right.
It gets more complicated with painful heavy things.
Who is to be crucified, nobody, right.
One problem is right and left might be associated with sides of a paper, then that paper can be flipped around, left becomes right, no becomes yes. This is part of the problem with oppression, what should be No per the Golden Rule becomes Yes.
I turn up oppression in society without meaning to, I rely upon services in a World that is less than ideal sin out. I want children to be protected and free, and I want clean water to drink – that should ideally be equated to ideals oppression out for all, does not in practice.
I want others less oppressed to have better and more peaceful days yet I invest in systems that deliver on that less than ideally. I am not to be the Judge (per Don’t Judge – The Bible), does not equate to assessment is unwise. That said assessment has potential to be said in ways that sound Judgmental that sound like they are judging the person, not the combination of problems they want highlighted and fixed.
Imagine I am eating a huge meal and I hear a news report that millions are starving in neighboring countries, countries around the World. I do not want them to starve, my eating less might de-inforce supply lines that are local, which factors into others having food (less is not always more). That said I might choose to fast, choose to go without meals in attempt to better my own health, partial act of faith, or just because I am not hungry at that moment. I would want to deliver in a way that ideal respects all people on Earth yet saying my decisions are made with ideal determinism is wrong.
I fasted because I was less hungry with side thoughts of how it might be potentially useful, acts of faith, not reinforcing my weight problems in myself, appreciation for fact there is still World hunger in 2024. Fasting has potential to cloud the mind at times I also think it has the potential to clear it making fasting more complicated. I am also remind that I turn up attention of others at times (I don’t wear suits or nice clothes to be less attractive), I don’t want my prayers to be ideally made public (not praying to be seen), and knowledge of what prayer is how prayer is factors into others capacity to pray to understand God thus I am mixed on sharing versus not sharing at times.
I don’t want to reinforce self as the ideal to look up to – I can’t create planets, I am not ideal sin out – I do not replace Christ.
Interest and Beauty is one of those systems that might be oppressive. Imagine I was attractive enough to make others not able to be attractive, not really Golden Rule for them – luckily I don’t have that problem. That said there is a bit of a mix of oppression and not oppression in it all. I am not that interesting at times – interesting matters as it factors into ability to consolidate support lines. A beautiful woman wants to marry someone boring? People want to go to boring movies, listening to boring music, look at boring art? Boring is less inspiring, less inspiring has potential to be less support. That said interesting does not reinforce The Church in ideal ways. A movie with no villain, or a movie with a villain? We turn up villains, that is not all good. Boring might lead to divorce, boring might lead to divests from The Church, and divest from The Church is not all Golden Rule amplified. People hate villains, yet they have tendency to villainize boring more at times – the combination is not all good.
We should not reinforce villains, right. We should reinforce support, right. If I draw a dragon I am trying to make cool art for people to enjoy, not saying I want to burn cities to the ground. Start factoring in World governments, bombs, and years of oppression including iffy oppression it becomes more complicated in combination. I want to reinforce in ideal ways, art that is encouragement, though might be read as a sign of oppression from others in the world. I like protective qualities of our military, I don’t like the idea of power, oppression, and your gonna get it as an if-ed silent reminder to The World. I support our military, and that is dependent upon trust that they will not be an oppression engine for others. If someone is trying to hurt my family, which is associated with the military, sharp dragon teeth as reminder don’t hurt them is not all bad, that said I don’t want it convoluted with the idea I want to oppress others of any ethnic origin (from the USA, South, slavery, KKK and wizards dragons has potential to look less than ideal at times – I don’t want African Americans houses burned or support robbed and I like Godzilla movies, don’t want Caucasians set to KKK for going to Godzilla movies).
With all the complexity and potential for error in right versus left I believe it all in combination is more difficult than I would like for others – potential for problems, problems that are not always actively talked about, problems that might lead to others who I want protected and blessed less protected and blessed. That burden gets shouldered on The Church, and The Church has many other problems.
It is a hard problem to solve in combination, there is a world full of supercomputers – easy to think there is no potential for progress. A challenge for creative problem solvers of the world.
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