{"id":187,"date":"2016-12-05T11:05:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T05:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/?p=187"},"modified":"2016-12-05T11:07:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T05:37:59","slug":"the-conflict-compassion-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/the-conflict-compassion-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"The conflict-compassion conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plurality always existed as did difference of opinions. But, so did each sect, sub-sect, and sub-sub-sect&#8217;s<br \/>\nneed for individuality.<\/p>\n<p>Is it a surprise then, that there has never been a world without conflict? It goes with the theory of evolution too, right? Every group of humans fighting a fight only because they want to survive?<\/p>\n<p>So, looks like there will always be war to be seen as the fittest. By definition then, are compassion, taking care of the &#8220;weaker&#8221; ones, etc relatively newer concepts that have to fight a long battle of survival?<\/p>\n<p>Does this apply to non-war situations too? Can war then, be thought of as an extension of a conflict between two people?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nWho knows \u00af\\_(?)_\/\u00af, right? Till then I guess we have to make peace whenever we can, and make peace with whatever we can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>~ ~ ~<\/p>\n<p>This is a thought I tried to articulate in response to a discussion on the <a href=\"https:\/\/thestorybenchblog.wordpress.com\/\">StoryBench<\/a> group about &#8220;Confilct&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plurality always existed as did difference of opinions. But, so did each sect, sub-sect, and sub-sub-sect&#8217;s need for individuality. Is it a surprise then, that there has never been a world without conflict? It goes with the theory of evolution too, right? Every group of humans fighting a fight only because they want to survive?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/the-conflict-compassion-conflict\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The conflict-compassion conflict&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}