Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Promoting choice mean taking away from the others ?!

Our nephew was visiting us and we were traveling to the Inspiration point in Corona Del Mar. Not sure if the richness of the neighborhood real estate values, that influenced or the unbelievable beauty of the pacific ocean protected by the magnificent cliff that promoted that thought .... but we landed up discussing the marriage, life partner and reincarnation.

The world has been male chauvinist. All the GODS are male, except in Hindu philosophy. All the laws built by the men were discriminatory and dictatorial to minorities. The process of freedom and democracy is to challenge them and make them inclusive.

In a way, the process of democracy has been to take the dictatorial, discriminatory, exclusive, singular,  male centric democratic laws and introduce a choice for the minorities. In other words take the choice of being controlling, away from the original small specific group of people.

Promoting choice, in any case, is challenging the resistance, challenging the foundational discriminatory beliefs which are legitimized by the notion that they are valid because they are being practiced in the democratic environment and executed by democratically elected officials.



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