Okay, civil disobedience like in the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s asks a whole lot. It asks that you be all in, body, soul, and mind. And maybe it promises too much. Yes, undeserved suffering can have redemptive power. It can certainly win over third party supporters, and sometimes even members of the opposition group. But it doesn't always work, nothing does, human beings are just too complicated! And people who dislike you in the beginning are usually pretty good at finding new reasons to dislike you.
Utilitarianism might have been a pretty good alternate thread in the tapestry, so to speak. It's more akin to volunteer work. Maybe at the beginning, only a couple of hours a months. But if it's an area you find yourself really getting into, over time this might become 10 hours a week. And not as some kind of self-imposed obligation which is dry as dust, but as something you look forward to and as something which you really have to hold yourself back from spending even more time on. And perhaps the general advice is to visit and lightly participate with a number of volunteer activities, at least in the beginning.
And maybe you will find something which moves you so strongly that you're all in. But that's not a requirement. It's just one potential path.
Utilitarianism might have been a pretty good alternate thread in the tapestry, so to speak. It's more akin to volunteer work. Maybe at the beginning, only a couple of hours a months. But if it's an area you find yourself really getting into, over time this might become 10 hours a week. And not as some kind of self-imposed obligation which is dry as dust, but as something you look forward to and as something which you really have to hold yourself back from spending even more time on. And perhaps the general advice is to visit and lightly participate with a number of volunteer activities, at least in the beginning.
And maybe you will find something which moves you so strongly that you're all in. But that's not a requirement. It's just one potential path.
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