{"id":4057,"date":"2009-10-22T23:35:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T15:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=4057"},"modified":"2009-10-22T23:35:12","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T15:35:12","slug":"extreme-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/10\/extreme-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme Measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4060\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/114.jpg?resize=150%2C86\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"86\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Question:<\/strong> What is the correct approach one must practice to stop people who are persistently bad, like extremists?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong> There&#8217;s a need to befriend them,\u00a0to express concern for their general welfare first, before finding out why they think the way they do,\u00a0and to gently persuade them to think otherwise, for their benefit and that of others.\u00a0Compassion is more touching than bullets and condemnation,\u00a0but we need people with powerful and &#8216;extreme&#8217;\u00a0compassion and wisdom to affect them positively! What one can&#8217;t do individually, more need to do collectively. Mass loving-kindness (metta) in mass action! Our metta must be more persistent than their ways to touch and transform them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: What is the correct approach one must practice to stop people who are persistently bad, like extremists? Answer: There&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[57,200],"class_list":["post-4057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-compassion","tag-loving-kindness","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}