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The Freedom of Humanity

It's been a while folks. I've been busy lately so I couldn't write anything. I'll write a little bit about "The Freedom in Humanity."

"Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton

To include every people in 'all decision-making processes'


It goes through many phases:

1) 'Equality' is giving people the same things.
Every people is given each penny no matter how much they needed it.

2) 'Equity' is giving fairness in every situation.
When the concept of 'equality' doesn't meet people's expectation, here comes the 'equity' concept. Every people is given pennies based on their needs.

3) Both bring the 'Social Equality' concept.
Which means 'removing things and systems' that discriminates people and bring 'inequal distribution' of the decision-making process and resource access. Every people is treated fairly.

4) The final phase is 'Social Justice'.
A condition when the hierarchical world system with 'absolute powers' have been removed from the way of life of the people; and the removal of competition among production and distribution systems.

All of that are replaced with 'family love as the ultimate concept of organization in humanity.

I'm always attracted to this quote by a famous English writer and novelist called C.S. Lewis.

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C. S. Lewis

"The Freedom of Humanity concept doesn't come from the western schools. It's in our heart, it lies here in our sacred Pancasila."
(Alifsar, 2019)

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