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Originally Posted by Sheepy
With Buddhism though... there are some SERIOUS problems when it comes to dealing with ethics. You can't argue with Buddhism why certain tyrants should be taken out of power. It states life is all round a painful experience and only escapable through enlightenment And enlightenment has the idea of un realness, seeing ourselves outside our bodies. Yet to someone who sees himself and others as unreal, human suffering and death may appear laughably trivial. Also in some ways it justifies poverty. We are all born into our positions due to previous life - so there fore it is acceptable to be alright with why children are born into starving and sick families. Wasn't Buddha's first step toward enlightenment was his abandonment of his wife and child? That certainly will make for happiness for all around the world.
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Ha, nice. Should we also criticize psychology because Freud and what they did in the 60s and 70s?
Also, I think you have a somewhat misconstrued idea of Buddhism and its approaches to suffering and poverty, but I don't want to threadjack.
Generally speaking, for the purposes of this thread, Buddhism is worth looking at because its approach involves observation and awareness, rather than dogma, ritual, and superstition. That is, if you focus on the core aspects, rather than the, um, ritualized aspects. You know, the way Buddha suggests.