The terrorist attack in Boston this week reminds us that inhumanity anywhere, is inhumanity everywhere.  Steadily increasing demand for natural resources and wealth concentration are resulting in an increasing number of human beings, who once enjoyed self sufficiency and a manageable existence, who are now desperately  fighting to survive if not losing hope completely.  We all bear the cost of desperation and injustice in the world but the more those who are able to help look away, the more desperate those with the least become.

Ongoing erosion of the rule of law and capitalistic exploitation of human rights abuses yield abundance for wrongdoers and offer increasing evidence to those who believe in the primacy of individual rights of the need to actively defend those rights for all people.  The alternative to a civilized society in which individual rights are protected and the rule of law is applied justly is a bifurcation of humanity separating those humans who enjoy individual rights and freedoms from those who don’t.

To be supportive of individual rights, we must acknowledge the fact that we live in an inhumane world with rampant injustices everywhere and the less humane we are to those most in need the more animalistic our world becomes.  Inhumanity and injustice threatens the notion of a civilized society, and just talking about it does not fulfill the moral obligation each of us has to do what we can to promote the concepts of liberty and justice for all.

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