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Originally posted by serenity
I think you can shout yourself hoarse and not get anywhere. My feeling is that if you put all your effort into creating a better situation for friends, for your family, affecting changes in their livelihoods and your own, you accomplish much more than the protestor with a ski-mask in the picket line.
What do you think? How do you apply your values in real life? Do you do it at all?
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There's a middle ground between going out and manning the picket lines and staying home and minding your family and close friends. And that involves being of service to others in your community: donating your time or energy to homeless suppers, suicide prevention or peer counseling, literacy tutoring, neighborhood watch, maybe even just hooking up with the local volunteer center to go shopping or do yard work for housebound older people, lobbying the city council for needed services in your neighborhood, etc. Although you are closest to your family and friends, your community is the sea that you all swim in, and it both behooves you and is to your direct benefit to make it a better and more hopeful place for all who live there.