Re: Why do you not pray?
I was looking at the criteria by which this is measuring “peace” and I disagree with much of the methods and there are some major failures in this.
First of all … There was no information on altruism in this report … please provide the page reference for altruism figures and how they measure that.
I was surprised to see that not a single mention was given over the “drug usage” and “alcoholism” and “suicide rates” - which for me are directly related to the state of peace of people - so they are less inclined to absorb themselves in escapism and distraction. Japan ranks highly in this reports “peace” - but those people are internally sick and spend most of their lives escaping from the reality of it.
Also, this report seems to treat inactivity as being equivalent to peace … But there are regimes so in control that the people are afraid to lift a finger - that does not make them peaceful also other states are are better at distracting their populations. Another problem with this report is that views and concludes “material wealth to be a factor for peacefulness”
The real issue is dreaming … if you give someone a dream and do not provide them the means to realise that dream then you get unrest … If however, you tell your own people to grateful while give them relatively good facilities then they will be more at peace.
Another problem with this report is that it blames the condition of the country on the country … It has side-stepped the fact that many of the “peace” countries are the ones providing the weapons and creating the conditions where the “not so peaceful” countries start to war … terrorism to this day is being fuelled with weapons from the West.
Also I do not see that simple charity giving is a good measure for peace - I have heard that much of the charity raised in the West is from Muslims anyway … governments also give aid - but they have strings attached … True altruism is to give away for the needs of others when the amount is not surplus but also within the donors needs …
well, if you disagree with the methodology then the list is pointless. Anyway, I do agree somewhat about more peaceful countries being involved in some fishy activities. They have a hand in creating the chaos in the not so peaceful countries. Why do you say about Japan what you said?