One can also say that Buddhism would work if everyone efficiently adhered to it. No doubt that meditation can make you more compassionate through seeing the futility and the horror of agression (but so can just basic reasoning). But then that’s like Communism, it only works if all the world adopts it, which is extremely unfeasible.
Or even if everyone adopted it, even if it would effectively makes us see that we can’t go on with some technologies, that we can’t go on with nationalism, etc etc, what if some peril beyond our control, say aliens, appeared? Or even just a small group of wicked humans. ,”Just don’t worry bro”? Buddhism is suicide. I’d keep my sufferings from my desires, even to the point of paranoia, if that helps keep my alive and away from way bigger sufferings, which it does. And I can always take half a valium, or take a walk, or decide to forget about it for one leasure day.
One can also say that Buddhism would work if everyone efficiently adhered to it. No doubt that meditation can make you more compassionate through seeing the futility and the horror of agression (but so can just basic reasoning). But then that’s like Communism, it only works if all the world adopts it, which is extremely unfeasible.
Or even if everyone adopted it, even if it would effectively makes us see that we can’t go on with some technologies, that we can’t go on with nationalism, etc etc, what if some peril beyond our control, say aliens, appeared? Or even just a small group of wicked humans. ,”Just don’t worry bro”? Buddhism is suicide. I’d keep my sufferings from my desires, even to the point of paranoia, if that helps keep my alive and away from way bigger sufferings, which it does. And I can always take half a valium, or take a walk, or decide to forget about it for one leasure day.