There is no escaping some level of pain in life, be it mental, emotional or physical; therefore doesn't it make sense to do the least harm possible? Why add to it?
Just by being alive we will cause some harm. For example, just walking down the road likely involves the death of some kind of insect. Therefore, why slaughter an animal when you don't need to? Why steal cows' milk when it is unnecessary for human health? Why plunder the sea for fish when you can go right to the source and eat algae? And so on!
Why make life harder by creating and promoting hierarchical societies where some have plenty and others are lacking? Food, shelter, education and healthcare are fundamental needs and should be easily accessible to all. Politicians work for us. We hired them. They should represent the needs of the people, not soulless corporations and their infinite greed. Our taxes should go to benefitting the societies we live in, not funding billionaires and wars. Shouldn't the wellbeing of children be an unspoken must for humanity? Their future requires a stable and loving present.
Why not make life as easy, enjoyable and fulfilling as possible for everyone by cultivating caring communities that welcome individuality? No one is special, but we are all unique. And we need each other.
It's wrong to think humans are inherently aggressive and there's no way to change that. Violence is an aspect of human nature that shouldn't be nurtured. If a culture nurtures violence, then you get a culture of violence that plays on this part of us.
We are inherently compassionate, let's cultivate that part of ourselves: individually and collectively.
I understand that anger and violence can be an expression of unfathomable pain, but in a healthy society such depths would never be reached.
Anger can be necessary to fuel the fire of change. But that's a righteous anger. Anger born of trauma affects the bearer of these emotions negatively along with their family, community and wider communities. It creates a never-ending cycle of trauma.
