For example, the bishops maintain that the first
use of even the smallest counterforce
nuclear weapons is always wrong, but they recognize that others
within the church community might come to a different conclusion.
Within that functional world - village, we find now existing genocidal war (Indochina), cold war,
nuclear weapons threats, conventional
weapons threats, colonialism and neo-colonialism, wildly unbalanced
use of resources so that a major part of the world population starves or verges on starvation while a minor part consumes lavishly, racism, ignorance, a defilement of the environment through pollution of air, water and soil, and reckless wastage of irreplaceable resources.