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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
What does it take to want to destroy something?
You can be a zealot, but if you want to destroy someone to uphold your beliefs, it requires hatred.
You can covet something, but if you destroy someone in order to take it away, this requires hatred.
If someone doesn't want you to survive, is this not because of hatred?
We don't seek to destroy those we like. Sometimes we are indifferent, sometimes it pains us. But for it to come to that, I cannot see it doing so in the absence of hatred somewhere along the line.
Can war be reduced to tough love?
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Survival, I do not mean they do not want you to survive, I mean they need simple necessities to just live, so they will take what you have.
Just because someone does not hate you, does not mean they like you, they may instead pity you and desire to impose on you for your own good their own belief.
I am just saying even if we remove hatred it does not ensure peace. It would be a huge step of course.
The key is for people to understand others have their own beliefs. And in a religious case, I do not believe in what Christians, Muslims, Mormans, etc... But for me I understand while I think they are wrong, it is up to G-d to sort it out. That type of acceptance of other beliefs (not necessarily how I do it but same results) is a key value needed to ensure true peace.