Cuicui wrote:I wonder if there is any point in wanting to convince.Ghandi wrote:«Example is not the best way to convince: it's the only one.
Wiki wrote:[Ghandi] was a vegetarian activist. He practiced rigorous fasts for long periods, to self-purify but also as a means of protest, influence and reform in others
Only Ghandi could have said if by this sentence he was not rather trying to make it clear that faced with the force of self-denial, trying to convince would be futile. But obviously that his altruistic route already gave the "tone" ...!
Obviously, in order to understand it, it was better to be benevolent and also not relegate to the background the cause to be defended (in favor of the means which then became an end in itself! Because suddenly the thread of the real meaning of the sentence was lost)
Even the one who lost all objectivity would not be able to convince himself