Responsiveness - Part Three

If you have had the courage to express civility on the world stage and/or a national stage this year, or in earlier years, how have other people usually responded to your efforts? 

When dominant social groups, and individual members of those groups, are greedy, arrogant, rude and possibly even cruel, how should members of non-dominant social groups respond?

What have you been learning about integrity this year?

How authentic is your responsiveness towards injustices and other causes of suffering?

How does your empathy want you to respond to perceptions of distress?

What do you do when cultural practices conflict with that desire?

What have been your experiences of anguish this year, and why?

And how have you responded to those feelings, directly and indirectly?

Perhaps you do not believe it is possible to respond authentically to anguish with civility.

Yet incivility is the cause of much societal anguish.