About cigarette butts in the forest

One respected Frend wrote a post on how our habitat is violated, how people litter, scatter cigarette butts in the forest and beat glass. Next, a strong statement was made that he personally was ready to destroy such people without a twinge of conscience.

I do not evaluate - it is bad or well scattered garbage and beat the glass. I think that many who read these lines have a very definite opinion on this issue.
I'm talking about ecology in general.

There is an ecology - the part of the world in which we live, which surrounds us, which we ourselves form around us. And this is somehow clear.

But there is an ecology of thought, what we hold in the head, as we reason. As emotions, we turn into actions. You can think correctly, that is, internally consistently, calmly, balanced, easy. Then our knowledge is freely placed on the shelves of the classification that we have created, and amazing ties and patterns are found between them. New knowledge either takes its worthy place among others, or turns into an amazing artifact, which requires additional study and analysis. At the same time, the very source of new knowledge does not cause a negative reaction by the fact of its existence.

But there is an inert thinking that a person creates himself with his attitudes. The framework of these attitudes for him is more important than coming information from the outside world. Then the sources of information that does not fit into the existing framework, or are declared non -existent and questioned, or are an object of suppression and destruction.

Any intolerance is a manifestation of the inertness of thinking, the inability to allow the existence of a different opinion or other thought that does not fit into the usual, and often comfortable, circle of concepts and images. Intelligence requires the restoration of previous forms and rules, despite the changed situation, which means establishing new boundaries and rules. One intolerance gives rise to another, the snowy lump of aggression is growing. And it will be difficult to notice how instead of a bunch of cigarette butts you will already surround the heaps of your own -handed corpses. Because thoughts materialize.

In order not to be so sad, I remind you of one joke related to another topic - tolerance in relation to people with a different sexual orientation.

Joke. Friend Bil liked to visit his friend Jack and smoke a friend's cigars. Jack himself did not smoke, and was very annoyed by this pernicious habit of smoking his friend.
In order to somehow annoy Billa's friend, old Jack began to put cigars in his ass: first only the tip of the cigar, then half of the cigar, and after a while and the whole cigar. The friend beat did not notice the catch and continued to visit his friend Jack.
... Somehow, a friend beat him to quit smoking, but Jack's friend did not get rid of a pernicious habit of putting his cigars in his ass.

I think that the problem is not to scatter garbage, how to train a person to be an environmentally responsible citizen can be solved. And heaps of garbage and cigarette butts can be removed. But a bunch of garbage in my head can stay.

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