Saturday, February 27, 2010
Fulfillment
There are different measures of social exclusion, a term used more in Europe than here, but they all get back to inequality in terms of participation. There is more to life than the right to be equally excluded. Indeed, there is more to human dignity than civil rights. Like fulfillment, which entails responsibilities we are deprived of exercising due to institutionalized exclusion from decision-making on all the vital choices. Denying us the opportunity to be responsible generates all sorts of misbehavior and dysfunction.
