What do humanism and adjustment reinforce about the significance of existence, life?
Part II of II
...The struggle to establish the essence of the individual as being the basic building block of existence and establish the right of the individual to fulfill their own purpose in life unimpeded, are the number one and two fundamental principles for which we have consistently sacrificed our very lives, our very existence throughout history.
It is not our lives we said were important but rather the right to travel, journey through life unimpeded, free of the dominance of others, free to develop as we each individually saw fit to do. This drive through history was predicated upon the significance of life (which we had not defined) extending into eternity. Since we could not compare the impact different life journeys had upon the abstract concept of eternity, we accepted the concept of elevating all life onto a plane of equality.
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The evolution of the concept of equality is a natural outcome from an understanding of the impact we have upon eternity should eternity exist.