Jun 25, 2009 12:15:05 PM cite

I answer your question on pages 196-198 of my free bilingual philosophy book which I am distributing. Una Tapicería De Pensamientos on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/16715330/A-Tapestry-of-ThoughtsUna-Tapiceria-De-Pensamientos-" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">A Tapestry of Thoughts/Una Tapicería De Pensamientos

by Gonarthouse

Jan 16, 2007 7:50:12 AM cite

Dignity arises from a sense of right relation to the world, and hope in the future.____ I was at a meeting two years ago when a woman stood up to denounce me. She was standing in front of the microphone preparing herself, when I opened my heart to her. She stopped, and said: "I was going to say something, but now I remember why I am here. I suffered a fatal accident. It was ten years ago, and I had forgotten. I mean, I was driving down the road at high speed, and a car came out of nowhere. We crashed. I was floating through the air, and then something made me feel that I had to come back. I floated back into my car, and there was the big crack in the windshield where my head had been broken. And I was OK. I went to the hospital, but I was OK. So I am here to tell you - why I am here - There is nothing to be afraid of."____We are trying to assemble ourselves, like pieces of a puzzle, into something that is larger than us. Some of us fit, some of us don't. We keep on trying. Unless we give up, reality will harbor us until we make it right...___We deny each other the same grace because we are afraid this is our only chance to make it.

by Trichronos

Sep 30, 2006 12:06:59 AM cite

Human dignity is defined in many different ways by many different people, there then comes the issue of perception. We do not let people go without them, they, perhaps are happy with what they have or choose not to need whatever we want to give, or more often impose on them. It remains an issue of perception.

by RedSevenOne

Sep 10, 2006 12:34:24 AM cite

Addressing the second part of your question. There is a severe imbalance in the realm of spiritual dignity; one of it's main components being that as the dominate species on the Earth we have a responsibility to the care-taking of the Earth and to the Human Race. The more one has the greater is their responsibilty. "Nobless Oblige". Unfortunately we see the negative elements of spirituality being expressed; such as greed and lust for power, etc. It is a selfish world we live in.

by notcriswell

Sep 9, 2006 5:15:43 PM cite

See the 1948/49 Universal Declaration on Human Rights as the floor for the list of dignities. However, I don't believe that these rights are unconditional. No one else can abrogate these rights but we can forfeit these rights if we are not prepared to accept and act on the associated responsibilities to the best of our ability.

by everydayaction

Sep 9, 2006 11:30:00 AM cite

Abbas Beydoun: There were permanently people, religions and groups that considered themselves to be the most progressive and they thought that they have the right to kill the others and to show them without any respect the right way they should follow. There were also people who thought that the others are from the second class and their life is not valuable. I come from Lebanon, so some days ago the planes launched barbarically rockets on the houses and tens of civilians and families were annihilated. I think that the pilots were thinking that what they are doing is right so they did not care about the sequences and they did not think of the 400 children who were killed within 30 days. The pilots thought that they are serving their issue which is more important than lives of people as they thought, because they surely believed that their life is more valuable than the people they killed.

by Abbas Beydoun