Reacting or Not Reacting to Violence

[Gem]

Originally Posted by Astralyra

Hi Gem,

I think choice is taken out of the equation once the person has shown they are incapable of being humane. The problem is, is that the individual at hand does not see anything abnormal about their behaviour, or enjoys what their behaviour creates, and they will never subscribe to change, the only thing that these types of folk subscribe to is inflicting pain on others. Trying to empower someone like that is like trying to empower change on how the government conducts it's business.

Such an individual is unlikely to want to change.

We can only hope that one day sick violent people will wake up and say to themselves hey what I am doing is wrong on so many levels, lets sit quietly and do some self enquiry. It's never going to happen and I can't help but laugh because these are the types of folk that really need to embrace spirituality

Basically, if people want to change and they want help to turn over a new leaf, they're pretty much able to do it if given the right conditions. There's a small possibility they might become spiritually inclined... but what people need is something for themselves to decide, which isn't anything spiritual in many cases.