The same holds true when dealing with politicians and others in Society
around you:
If you never speak up
The Politician will never be
given an opportunity to listen to you
So one could view it as you
do:
Unless speaking to politicians leads to change, it's a waste of
effort!
But:
Just because the future might rollout to showing
your efforts are a waste doesn't mean you shouldn't speak!
Sure... if you
don't speak, then you haven't "wasted" effort - but it'll never lead to change
you believe in either unless sufficient others speak up with the same view you
share without your voice. And if you truly don't want to speak up, then my
humble suggestion is to let those of us who want to speak to do so without the
dissuading comments.
Personally, I'd rather speak up on the matters I
deem sufficiently important then continue to let something so unfortunate
continue to deliberately happen.
That's never a waste even if people
aren't listening.
Because sooner or later others do start to pay
attention. Prior to a year ago, I heard of no Law that criminalizes verbal
abuse. I've been speaking out against verbal abuse for a long time. And with
the very unfortunate suicide of a 16 year old girl who could tolerate no more
verbal abuse others are finally starting to wake up to why verbal abuse is just
as wrong as physical abuse. And Laws are appearing so the verbal abuse victims
now have somewhere to turn to stop the harm.
As I said. You believe
strongly enough in correcting a wrong that you can see, even if no one listens:
it's not a waste! Because sooner or later someone will listen. And sooner or
later, someone who has listened will add their voice to yours. And sooner or
later sufficient voices will be raised that something will be
done.
Slaves have never - in the entire history of human suffering - ever
freed themselves by not saying/doing something.
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