(April 23, 2015 at 4:51 pm)Hatshepsut Wrote:(April 23, 2015 at 3:54 pm)Kitan Wrote: To be fair to the current big three trouble makers causing the most problems in the traditions of Abraham...
One may wish to research Hinduism's patriarchy and the fact they don't even have a concept of "sexual orientation." Although they did allow for a third gender, the Hijras. As for problems, the recent civil war in Sri Lanka comes to mind, with its Hindu vs. Buddhist overtones. This war was more secular than religious, yet both religions blessed their own side. Abrahimic faiths have no monopoly on the ugly or the gory.
(April 23, 2015 at 3:54 pm)Kitan Wrote: "Human rights" isn't a matter of POV....Human rights isn't simply "do it my way". Human rights is simply knowing that we are the same species...Life is not complicated, humans over complicated it...
Is life simple even for giraffes? I'll grant that the human rights corpus did not develop in an arbitrary manner. No human institution does, even the ones we laugh off as superstitious. Every culture has to solve difficult problems of survival and co-existence. Yet Western thinking harbors two contradictory rights currents each claiming a holiness as sacred as any Ark of the Covenant: individual rights after the Enlightenment and group rights after Multiculturalism. We see the conflict when we have to decide whether immigrants from the Sudan can practice female genital mutilations long customary and functional within their culture. Sure, functional though it sucks for the girls: It keeps the armed males off each others' jealous throats to some degree.
Name me one human now or prior that is not made up of DNA,
