How anyone can segregate or be biased against someone different than them based upon no logical rationale is absurdly inhuman. Racism is taught not a natural human instinct. Sexism is taught not a natural human instinct. These two nefarious paradigms are the product of fear and fear is the last thing we need to guide or lives with. Our innocence from birth is where value in living begins. Never surrendering our principles of fairness, justice, and equality is how the foundation of a proper life is built. No one is better than any other as a rule not an exception.
Surely we distinguish ourselves from each other in the application of our grit and fortitude, in our drive to be curious about all things, in our effort to physically dominate our weaknesses. But these are endeavors while living, not the arbiters of worthiness above all else. The mere presence of our existence is miraculous and worthy of humbled respect. What we do with our lives as we live often merit considerations of approval or disapproval but are not in themselves more or less equivalent to the worthiness of our individual existence. Our divergent upbringings and other environmental factors are the cause of class status, not the fact of our birth or the fire we have within each of us.
The idea that we cannot have a society that has the foundation of equality at its core is selfish and brutal thinking. The ancients never guessed how much alike we all are and back then their technology couldn't guide them properly. Whereas today we have the science and logic to prove our equalness and if ever we allow the intelligence of reason, analysis, and conclusion to be our guides we will have begun to build a society that reflects that. Otherwise unfortunately we are stuck with too many who find learning a chore unworthy of their time and space. Ultimately their confidence at being intelligent without doing their own mental work of attaining intelligence has them stuck in limbo with their too many fears surrounded by too many closer to ignorance than wisdom.
Surely we distinguish ourselves from each other in the application of our grit and fortitude, in our drive to be curious about all things, in our effort to physically dominate our weaknesses. But these are endeavors while living, not the arbiters of worthiness above all else. The mere presence of our existence is miraculous and worthy of humbled respect. What we do with our lives as we live often merit considerations of approval or disapproval but are not in themselves more or less equivalent to the worthiness of our individual existence. Our divergent upbringings and other environmental factors are the cause of class status, not the fact of our birth or the fire we have within each of us.
The idea that we cannot have a society that has the foundation of equality at its core is selfish and brutal thinking. The ancients never guessed how much alike we all are and back then their technology couldn't guide them properly. Whereas today we have the science and logic to prove our equalness and if ever we allow the intelligence of reason, analysis, and conclusion to be our guides we will have begun to build a society that reflects that. Otherwise unfortunately we are stuck with too many who find learning a chore unworthy of their time and space. Ultimately their confidence at being intelligent without doing their own mental work of attaining intelligence has them stuck in limbo with their too many fears surrounded by too many closer to ignorance than wisdom.
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