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Science is about our passionate conviction that we are placed within a universe that is not simply the result of our imaginings, and our longing and determination to understand it. Ultimately, science is about reality, truth and freedom.
Suffering is a form of knowledge. It tells us what is wrong with our world.
People can and often do ignore or deny their common humanity with others, or deny, at least implicitly, that their common humanity commits them to sympathy or compassion for those less advantaged than themselves. Indeed, such an attitude towards one's fellows can be represented as tough, uncompromising, positively heroic: the supermen versus the wimps. But just as this ruthless world may be chosen - as it is chosen by the current rulers of the globalised neo-liberal market - so if may also be rejected.
Absolutely everybody wants to be liked (law 1).
Everyone feels different inside (less confident, less able, etc.) from how they infer other people to feel (law 2).
Few honest and courageous people who have achieved anything of real value in life do not feel a fraud much of the time (law 3).
Acceptance of these three 'laws' alone would save an awful lot of people an awful lot of grief!
The principle locations of exploitation have moved, through the mechanism of 'globalisation', to where most of us can't see them and don't really care about them if we do.
