ALL LIVES MATTER: JUDICIOUS HUMANISM
ALL LIVES MATTER: JUDICIOUS HUMANISM

Summary/Abstract: The world has become a global village with diversity of peoples, cultural traditions, worldviews, customs, and lifestyles. Advances in sciences, technology and medicine, strengthened by fierce competition and consumerism, have led to public debates concerning international trade, economic independence, environmental crisis, and cultural conflicts. Bias is embedded in socio-cultural constructs and worldviews that societies have formed over a long period of cultural establishment and in accordance with evolution in time and space. These factors have resulted in unequal and oppressive treatment of women, minorities, the disabled, and the poor by ruling elites. However, all humans have common needs and wants, and yet are unable to communicate in a manner that can be universally understood. This paper will explore the complex nature of life: biological, sociological, cosmological, and spiritual, and will argue that social groupings, including class categories, are simply socio-political and man-made constructs. Social groupings can be deconstructed or replaced through the teaching of an “all-inclusive” and “interdependent” existence and a conscience-based or judicious humanistic value system that will promote recognition of and respect for others. Drawing from ancient philosophies of India, the paper suggests a judicious humanism for sustenance of all lives. The dignified treatment of all lives matters for all-inclusive welfare (security, health, comfort, and happiness) because every being contributes to the totality of existence.

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