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Losing Our Irrelevant Abstractions
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Losing Our Irrelevant Abstractions

Resisting the urge to substitute prejudice for observation

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Inhumanity is not limited to any particular national border, ethnicity or belief system.

This reality seems to take some people by surprise.

A person’s skin color, religion or ethnicity are irrelevant abstractions. The only real distinction that matters among mankind is whether one is decent or indecent.

Whatever scientific grouping of humanity we choose to examine, both character types will be present.

Every single person on earth is born as an individual. 

No matter what artificial groups or classifications some try to separate us into, no perfectly identical individuals can be found to exist.

Because of this, the only fair way to judge anyone, if some judgment is needed, is by his or her individual actions and words. 

Those who strictly judge others according to what group they belong to are substituting prejudice for observation.

Unfortunately, group or identity politics has proven to be very effective in dividing society up into little tribes that are constantly pitted against one another.

The only antidote to this malevolent type of social engineering is found in regarding one another as individuals and resisting the urge to make group judgments.

This places a significant moral burden upon each of us as individuals to ensure that if evil is find a way into this world, it must do so through someone other than us.

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