Contrarian Thinking

CONTRARIAN THINKING When individuals engage in balanced thinking, they will realise the importance of willingly accepting minor setbacks to avoid losses should they refuse to do so. Sometimes, an individual or a social group engages in violence in order to obtain what it regards as its rights. In terms of results, this approach is actually completely counter-productive, because history shows that through violence, one loses, whereas through peace, one gains. Throughout much of human history, numerous dictators, such as Hitler and Stalin, have engaged in violence on a huge scale, seeking thereby to obtain their supposed objectives. But without any exception whatsoever, the end result of the violence that was engineered by all of these people was just one—and that is, devastation. The same is the case with Muslims. In present times, in different places, Muslims have taken to violence in the name of obtaining justice or securing rights, but the result of this has always been counter-productive.