dignity
The PFC law truly is, the law that ought to have
existed before any other. For, without requiring that birth be under respectable
conditions, we cannot successfully require that life be under respectable
conditions. If we do, then we would need a host of other laws to govern and
safeguard that human dignity and respectability in every matter and detail; at
every place and at every time, which obviously as history has shown, is not only
impossible, but also ineffective.
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If it is ensured that children are born into
financially secure environments, the next generation will be a financially
secure generation. The nation, state or race that ensures this, will have
ensured that every one of its members is treated with basic human dignity and
respect.
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The world needs strong people who can give something,
not weak people who take something. That is tolerable, but when the world fails
to let the weak people take just the bare minimum required to sustain their life
and live with basic human dignity, then a standard of human living must be set,
below which no human being is allowed to be born.
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To preserve the dignity of man is the ultimate aim of
any institution. Through fulfilling basic needs, through securing basic rights,
through providing growth opportunities and through every other service rendered
by all of society’s institutions, we are preserving the dignity of man. We ought
to be, but are we?
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The man is subjected to the institution and the
institution has grown in dignity while man himself, for whom the institution was
created, has diminished in dignity and has become a helpless pawn in the hands
of institutions.
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We have lost our focus. We have lost sight of the
reason for the existence of all of society’s institutions. We have lost sight of
the reason why we created these institutions. The reason is to preserve the
dignity of man. Not to secure basic rights. Not to fulfill basic needs. Those
are just tools that help us preserve the dignity of man. We ought to look around
once in a while and see if the dignity of man has been properly preserved. Our
aim is to ensure that no one is treated without human dignity by man or by
nature, not for a single moment.
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Today we have a population explosion facing us and with
it comes a need to alter the laws of society to suit the changes. But as we make
drastic changes, if we do, we need to keep in mind the aim that we ought to
have, the aim of preserving human dignity, of not letting any factor, man-made
or natural to devaluate it.
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So, that is our fault. The reason for the imperfection
in our societies. Our aim ought to be: The preservation of human dignity.
Injustice injures human dignity. Inequality flabbergasts human dignity. We ought
to secure human dignity. And for that we have no choice but to ensure human
birth into dignified conditions. Only later can we ensure human life in
dignified conditions. When the majority of births in the world are in
undignified conditions, as is the case today, we can never hope to truly ensure
a life of human dignity for them. We cannot ensure a fair, secure and therefore
dignified life for the people already born and brought up in conditions
otherwise, especially when they are not only the majority, but also the most
rapidly multiplying section of humanity. The solution is not a cure but a
prevention.
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Human dignity has to be worked for, fought for and died
for. Because, like everything else, there is not enough for everyone.
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Technology is not worth more than human life. Human
life is worth more than technology. Let technology measure up to existing human
needs before new human needs spring up, instead of human needs adjusting to what
technology can offer or human dignity lowering to what technology can
accommodate.
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Only when we do not let the population grow
unsustainably, can we let the underprivileged live with dignity. The same goes
for the handicapped and all people with disabilities. To give them a fair life
will not be possible till the nation ensures that the rest of its population is
always self-sustaining. Its not a favor that we are doing the underprivileged or
disabled person, it’s ensuring his or her right to live with human dignity.
Before each person is born, it must be ensured that the resources for his or her
survival and growth are available. If we succeed in doing this, the person born
would have his or her basic rights and needs successfully met, whether the
person born is mentally or physically challenged or not. Once we succeed in
doing this, only then can we mobilize resources for special aid or protection.
When we are unable to meet the basic needs of people, whether challenged or not,
we cannot hope to provide the extra special aid to all those who need and
rightfully deserve it.
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