[Buddha-l] Re: Buddhist pacifism

[Joy Vriens]

Beni wrote:

>    I  understand  you.  The  problem, for me, is that I
> don't   believe   in   individuality.   It's  a  social
> construction  that  I  would  like  to see disappear. I
> think  that the individuality myth (and the individuals
> it has created) is one of the worst human inventions. I
> tend to think that "individuals" are "society members,"
> so I'm going to try to reflect that in my discourse.

An individual is only the sum of various coexisting physical 
experiences, impulses and ideas at a given moment, like a society is. An 
individual is a society (or maybe I am totally schizophrenic) on a lower 
level if you like. What is good about society and what is bad about an 
individual?

Joy