10-01-2014, 03:50 PM
To me the battle that gets picked is the one that comes to you personally and the one with which you have a shot at making change happen.
There is always some bigger and worse corruption, but the higher one moves up the ladder, the less chance that a couple people can have an effect. I'm really against genocide, but my ability to make it stop is basically zero.
If I had a choice between stopping genocide, or corruption in Hawai'i government in toto over championing a smaller issue, I would go for the biggest outcome that helped the most people.
I respect people who identify where they can make a difference and go for it, and I don't think that is destructive energy. I believe that locally fueled energy put towards local abuses is worthwhile. I feel that way about my own neighborhood's issues.
Same as I believe that a local forum like Punaweb has a use, even though it doesn't allow discussion of the big evils plaguing this planet. Its philosophy recognizes the benefit of talking about stuff in your own smaller scope. But then when people work at a small local level, they are berated for not taking on a big political machine or a monster like HDOT to which they (the neighborhood activists) are inconsequential numbers and voices.
Kathy
There is always some bigger and worse corruption, but the higher one moves up the ladder, the less chance that a couple people can have an effect. I'm really against genocide, but my ability to make it stop is basically zero.
If I had a choice between stopping genocide, or corruption in Hawai'i government in toto over championing a smaller issue, I would go for the biggest outcome that helped the most people.
I respect people who identify where they can make a difference and go for it, and I don't think that is destructive energy. I believe that locally fueled energy put towards local abuses is worthwhile. I feel that way about my own neighborhood's issues.
Same as I believe that a local forum like Punaweb has a use, even though it doesn't allow discussion of the big evils plaguing this planet. Its philosophy recognizes the benefit of talking about stuff in your own smaller scope. But then when people work at a small local level, they are berated for not taking on a big political machine or a monster like HDOT to which they (the neighborhood activists) are inconsequential numbers and voices.
Kathy