[This is a what I intended to paste as a blog comment to a person who wrote rather idealistically about everyone going beyond their limited circles and holding hands as members of one single family and all that. This comment could not be pasted there so I am pasting it here.]
I am with you absolutely in the spirit of what you say. But aren't all of us different? For such an idealistic situation as you wish for to occur, all of us must be of the same temperament. Do you envisage everyone in the world simultaneously becoming alike right away? Till such a situation comes to a pass, if ever it does, we have to hold on to our individual cherished ideals without, of course, seeking to force it upon anyone while at the same time recognizing the right of others to hold on to their cherished ideals. In other words, living and letting live. What must be fought against are transgressions of sacred spaces of every individual and community.
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