Posted by sdb on November 18, 2005, at 4:30:01
In reply to still..., posted by med_empowered on November 18, 2005, at 1:37:16
I absolutely agree with you.
Dalai Lama mostly sends messages of no violence to people. And he won a price for that.
But there are exceptions.
He said that a war is sometimes justified. Or forced intervention of brain surgery...
But contradictions are normal in humanoids.
I personally would be interested in his thoughts about drugs acting in the brain. Many substances a man eat daily is acting in the brain.
The buddhism says he came from the bodhisattvas (some individuals who do need to live again and again on this planet normally) to live as a (normal) man, monk on the planet.
> still...although the dalai lama seems nifty, he represents a spiritual tradition/religion, rather than speaking for the rights of the individual. I just find his statement really, really disturbing--to me, forcible "psychiatric intervention" of any sort is inherently *violent* and the dalai lama of all people generally comes out against *violence* in its varied forms.
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