I don't know what to do with this yet

Something is starting to germinate and I don't know exactly what it is or how to articulate it. We tend to define some important concepts in terms of their opposite: peace is the absence of war, safety is the absence of violence, etc.

This seems insufficient to me, and that's as far as I've gone with it so far. I know there's more; I just can't find the language yet.

More later.