Thoughts without prayers.
To hold the belief in the sacredness of all human life is to accept one of the most exacting moral burdens imaginable. It demands that one apply it without exception, even to those whose deeds inspire revulsion and whose existence feels like a direct threat.
It asks that you see yourself as no more and no less valuable than someone who committed atrocities. And by doing so, you strip the belief of the natural instinct for selfprotection, willingly accepting a moral position that may work against your own survival.
It is easy to profess this creed, wear it as a badge of moral refinement, but to truly embrace it? to live it in the presence of those who have harmed? An active presence of the danger. That borders on the impossible.
It asks that you see yourself as no more and no less valuable than someone who committed atrocities. And by doing so, you strip the belief of the natural instinct for selfprotection, willingly accepting a moral position that may work against your own survival.
It is easy to profess this creed, wear it as a badge of moral refinement, but to truly embrace it? to live it in the presence of those who have harmed? An active presence of the danger. That borders on the impossible.
