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A Human Being By Any Other Name
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Beware of anyone who describes a human being as something other than a human being.
"Refugee," "homeless," "losers," "failures," "bum," "hippie," "addict," "retard," "weird"...These are all terms that refer to one thing - a human being - but they are used to separate us from each other. If we saw everyone as a human being, then we wouldn't be so quick to turn a blind eye to the suffering.
This was sent to me by a friend and I believe it to be true.
"Refugee," "homeless," "losers," "failures," "bum," "hippie," "addict," "retard," "weird"...These are all terms that refer to one thing - a human being - but they are used to separate us from each other. If we saw everyone as a human being, then we wouldn't be so quick to turn a blind eye to the suffering.
This was sent to me by a friend and I believe it to be true.
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As I see it maggie, this is not an either / or situation.
Defining someone with a convenient shorthand label in terms of occupation, or status, or activity, does not negate their humanity, because that label does not define them absolutely.
Quite often, giving someone a simple generic label places that person in a group of people, or in a situation, saves time when referring to them.
The mistake would be seeing that person only in terms of the label, rather than as an individual.
Therefore I am able to see an immigrant, a felon, a hippie, a doctor, a vet, a solider, as people placed in a group for convenience.
But that does not mean that I do not also see them as a unique homan being, and to assume that I do so, is to assume that I lack the basic intellignce to see past a label.
The statement, as offered, seems to be making an incorrect assumption about the way people actually see other people, and then taking the moral high ground by criticising a perception that I bleieve is not really true in the first place.
Defining someone with a convenient shorthand label in terms of occupation, or status, or activity, does not negate their humanity, because that label does not define them absolutely.
Quite often, giving someone a simple generic label places that person in a group of people, or in a situation, saves time when referring to them.
The mistake would be seeing that person only in terms of the label, rather than as an individual.
Therefore I am able to see an immigrant, a felon, a hippie, a doctor, a vet, a solider, as people placed in a group for convenience.
But that does not mean that I do not also see them as a unique homan being, and to assume that I do so, is to assume that I lack the basic intellignce to see past a label.
The statement, as offered, seems to be making an incorrect assumption about the way people actually see other people, and then taking the moral high ground by criticising a perception that I bleieve is not really true in the first place.
where is mushie
turning people into things is a necessary step before eliminating them innit?
Hence our gallant troops referring to Iraqis as 'towelheads' because it made it OK to shoot them
BUT classification is natural innit - men women, girls and boys - so the process is natural but can be subverted
where IS mushie.....
turning people into things is a necessary step before eliminating them innit?
Hence our gallant troops referring to Iraqis as 'towelheads' because it made it OK to shoot them
BUT classification is natural innit - men women, girls and boys - so the process is natural but can be subverted
where IS mushie.....
// Sorted.//
not quite: ..... this discounts ( probably for political reasons) - internal refugees - and puts them back as "displaced persons, deffo NOT refugees"
and so in the southern part of Sudan where they were shooting up each other, they had displaced persons - refugees nil
and then when it becomes a country - South Sudan that is! - bang a million refugees !
not sorted at all ( but hey this is AB so the glib phrase displaces rational argument)
not quite: ..... this discounts ( probably for political reasons) - internal refugees - and puts them back as "displaced persons, deffo NOT refugees"
and so in the southern part of Sudan where they were shooting up each other, they had displaced persons - refugees nil
and then when it becomes a country - South Sudan that is! - bang a million refugees !
not sorted at all ( but hey this is AB so the glib phrase displaces rational argument)
//I'm afraid that even those who do hateful deeds are indeed human beings.//
Yes of course they are but that doesnt stop them being killers, abusers, criminals, bullie stec.
Just as men, women, children, pensioners, gays, whites, blacks, single people, employed, unemployed, Muslims, Christians etc etc are also human beings but also are also men, women, children, pensioners, gays, whites, blacks, single people, employed, unemployed, Muslims, Christians etc
Yes of course they are but that doesnt stop them being killers, abusers, criminals, bullie stec.
Just as men, women, children, pensioners, gays, whites, blacks, single people, employed, unemployed, Muslims, Christians etc etc are also human beings but also are also men, women, children, pensioners, gays, whites, blacks, single people, employed, unemployed, Muslims, Christians etc
Remember the other side... Genius, humanitarian, philanthropist, lover, friend, artist, carer, etc we can all bear many names during our journey, we meet those who may or may not deserve the names they carry. All I know is some elevate to something above human, in the same way some sink below that reckoning.
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