Ethical Code for the XXI century: Don't discriminate

Friday, 28 December 2007

Don't discriminate

Let me tell you about this guy i know, he's a young, handsome doctor. Nurses at hospital where he works all find him cute. He's married though. Has 2 children. The eldest is a boy of 7 and learns to play the piano, the youngest is a girl of 3, his little princess. He has a comfortable salary and drives a latest model Audi. Lives in a nice neighbourhood, where he's known and respected. His wife studied history but does not work, she actually prefers to care for the house and volunteers to help at the local elderly centre. He is smart and ambitious, he has an incredible sense of humour and is such a pleasant company to be around with, he is a warm guy. He also sponsors the studies of his younger brother who learns informatics. He is someone you can fully trust, both professionally, for he has natural gift to perform as a doctor, and as a friend. Oh yes, one more not so relevant detail, Islam is his religion and his skin is fairly dark. Now let me tell you about his neighbor though. This neighbour has a 24 year old son. And this son is currently in jail. He was arrested for bombing and terrorism. He killed 8 people by blowing up a car. He did it because this people were politically, religiously and economically different from him. He has plenty of hatred. He's been taken by a fanatical group as a young boy and indoctrinated to hate those people. He acted without mercy or regret. He wished he could have killed more. He hasn't spoken to his father in more than 8 years, since he ran away from home. He has friends who think and feel like him. Oh, and another detail, this boy's skin is white, he has been raised catholic and lives in northern Ireland.

I'm not saying all Islamic are handsome doctors and all Catholics are merciless terrorists, but i am saying that not all Islamic are terrorists and not all Catholics are fine people. There is good and bad and just normal people, regardless of their religion or colour.

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Manifesto

Do not kill. Even in self defence avoid the death of your aggressor. Use Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy responsibly and in cases of manifest health risks and consider the alternatives in other cases. But do not accept as dignified the living of beings in extreme pain and suffering and accept that they might prefer to terminate it.
Respect the other. Don’t inflict bodily painful punishments. Don’t use of physical or psychological violence. Don’t insult. Control your aggressiveness. Don’t accept torture under any pretext. Respect yourself and your body and promote hygiene and health in public spaces.
Protect the helpless. In particular care for your elderly and children and avoid their early institutional commitment and abandoning. Protect the sick and safeguard the indispensable care and treatments with dignity, based on medical criteria, not economical. Preserve dignity and respect in death. Be sympathetic.
Consume responsibly. Work to be self-sufficient. Practice a fair consumption towards those that produce the goods, such that they receive a fair price and adequate and decent working conditions. Consider the environmental and social impact of consumer goods in all their life cycle. Minimize waste.
Respect Nature. Don’t kill animals and plants other than for nutritional or medicinal purposes or for the purpose of controlling plagues and deceases. Protect nearly-extinct species. Respect biodiversity and life in general. Contribute for resetting or transferring of green spaces and consider the impact of your actions in the ecosystems. Prevent exhaustion of forest and water resources.
Respect the Environment. Don’t pollute. Don’t create unnecessary garbage. Recycle. Use water and energy responsibly and efficiently. Consider the environmental sustainability of your actions. Don’t leave as a heritage to future generations a worst environment than the one you found.
Do not oppress. Don’t accept or promote any authoritarian or totalitarian forms of government under any pretext (stability, security, nationalism, etc.). History has proven that they are always harmful to populations. Don’t accept imposition on restrictions of free mobility, association and expression. Don’t cooperate or condone in any acts of segregation or genocide.
Get informed. Demand the practice of independent information. Consider the political and economical association of your sources of information. Demand a free (non-politicised), accessible and quality education system. Promote peaceful utilization of science and technology. Promote the defence of History and facts from manipulation for political or economical purposes. Get informed and form your own opinion and participate of public and political life. Preserve cultural wealth and heritages.
Don’t discriminate. Don’t use gender, colour or ethnics, age, health or physical shortcomings, nationality, political, religious, sexual or other preferences as elements to discriminate, neglect, or marginalize groups or individuals from life in society. Accept difference. Fight prejudice. Integrate and include. Promote access to opportunities in equality. Reward merit but support the weak.
Be fair. Use the laws to solve conflicts and punish acts of wickedness. Demand a fair and balanced distribution of wealth, both locally and globally, avoiding accumulation of extremes. Demand and participate in combating poverty. Don’t defend war as a form of aggression towards other people. Defend and support geographical mobility and integration of populations, in particular those originating from hostile or desolate parts of the planet.