Free Republic

Consider: The way we define 'human' determines our view of self, others, relationships, institutions, life, and future. Choose wisely...there will be results. In an effort to diminish the multiple and persistent dangers and abuses which have characterized the affairs of man in his every Age, and to assist in the requisite search for human identity, it is essential to perceive and specify that distinction which naturally and most uniquely defines the human being. Because definitions rule in the minds, behaviors, and institutions of men, we can be confident that delineating and communicating that quality will assist the process of resolution...

"The way we define 'human' determines our view of self, others, relationships, life, and future. Choose wisely...there will be results.

IDEAS? Thank you, Mr. Jefferson! Many of us agree that 'ideas' represents an anemic effort by the U.S. in dealing with Iraq and other Middle East countries - and a few others. Pushing a concept of 'democracy' is rightly perceived as merely 'political' and thus unacceptable under their philosophical and religious criteria and appears to be shallow when compared to America's true potential offering to the world out of our unique founding and inventive creative-growth values and experiences. The definitive in human nature is the ability to make choices at the individual level. (Is there any other kind of human?...