Love Your Earthly Neighbor - You Are Related

Science is nearing the completion of mapping our collective ancestry.
History reveals that certain peoples believed only they were unique,
and other humans were strangers or foreigners or less-than human.
Interestingly, those historical misconceptions had long been clarified before
the misconceptions became popular and fooled one man into hating another man.

Mankind has more in common than in difference.

Our collective history, no matter the regions and cultures that have developed since people have moved away from one another, brings to the forefront our common plight.

The matter of death's conclusion - that all men will eventually expire from the face of the earth - has brought about many ideas through philosophy, religion, law and other places.

These are the backdrop of today's world and current societies.

As these ideas continue to blend with one another, they are compared, edited, abrogated, and rewritten.

Mankind's commonality is being synthesized... what is evident rising to the top of the mountain of noise and argument.

Man's ideas have been written.

Along with the sobering reality that death is inevitable, man has also pondered what comes after death... and there are many ideas also written about this subject.

This idea is also as ancient as evidence of tool-making.

This fact, compared with the notion of eternity and a continuation of life present in all ancient cultures, reveals a consistency that science usually defines as a law.

The 'law' of life includes death.

During life, there is suffering of some sort.

Regardless of how any individual person would argue against such things is irrelevant.

These are constants that have given rise to man's ideas about themselves, about life and what life means when confronting the finality of death.

Regarding man's law (besides the law that nature teaches us), the laws that men come up with is a matter of agreement between people.

Freedom can be quite abstract for a person unfamiliar with the historical backdrop that led to a declaration of independence or a law that restricts one man physically enslaving another man.

However, there is still evidence of slavery (in the obvious definition and several others) on earth today.

The freedom desired and administered by one man brings responsibility regarding, and for, others.

Thus, in some places on earth one man's freedom does not allow them to obstruct another person's freedom.

Even the use of the terms 'freedom' and 'slavery', the context and cultural background these terms are defined clarifies their nuanced meanings... and the ability (or failure) for someone from a different cultural to understand.

Freedom exists in a particular frame of mind despite its limitation in the physical world.

I write it this way because there exists consequences for using one's freedom in a manner detrimental to not only one's self, but to others.

Rights, law, jurisdiction, and a great amount of terms that, when properly invoked and explained, can make the difference between freedom and prison, life and death, morality and immorality, and many other binary opposites [the realm of fallacy].