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QuestionWhy do we consider some lives to be worth more than others ? MsDemmieAnsweroriginal language english
Rodrigo Baggio: We should not consider some lives to have more value than others. This is really absurd. We should have a sense of equality in our diversity. People are different, and it is rich and beauitful to see this difference between people. But we should encounter the same treatment. We should not privilege some people because they are white, men, have money or status and position in society. We should respect each human being, each creature. This equality in the diversity is creative. It stimulates complexity and it makes of our world, of our life a complex system which learns. Each time we should stimulate more this sense of equality in our diversity. And it is absurd that there exists this type of behaviour exists in which some people are more similar than the others and can consequently have more privileges , can have more things than others. How can we create mechanisms that establish this type of equality? How can we make it possible that people with a low rent, people of isolated indigenous communities, of rural areas and marginalized people can participate in this process of equality, in this complexity? How enriching it is to listen and to learn from those people who think differently, who are different and who have different cultures and traditions. It would be much better if we established a process in which people lived more harmoniously and respected each person in his difference and if we could be equal in our difference and complexity.
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