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Arms trafficking, human trafficking, organ trafficking, drugs trafficking.
Slave labour, sexual slavery, child labour, forced labour.
Armed conflicts, tortures, rapes, mutilations, forced displacement, refugee camps.
Malnutrition, preventable diseases, maternal and child mortality.
Gender violence, discrimination, apartheid, sexual abuse, child abuse.
Unemployment, school leaving, lack of schooling.
The systemic crisis, the dismantling of the welfare state.
Poverty, lack of opportunities.
Slave labour, sexual slavery, child labour, forced labour.
Armed conflicts, tortures, rapes, mutilations, forced displacement, refugee camps.
Malnutrition, preventable diseases, maternal and child mortality.
Gender violence, discrimination, apartheid, sexual abuse, child abuse.
Unemployment, school leaving, lack of schooling.
The systemic crisis, the dismantling of the welfare state.
Poverty, lack of opportunities.
None of this is a fatal plague that Providence or Fate sends us.
Only greed, bigotry, corruption, prejudices, fears, customs of a patriarchal and intolerant society. All of them, human qualities that are the source of the greatest misfortunes of mankind.
And if they are human qualities that are behind such serious social and environmental injustices, wouldn't be expected that the opposite qualities could change the pace of this world?
If tolerance is a source of progress, it can also be a source of injustice, because everyone, in our environment, we witness and suffer, with some tolerance, corruption, greed, prejudices and many other slightly virtuous qualities inherent ourselves and those who share our existence. Silent witnesses to the human micro-plagues that globally devastate our world .
Thus, should not we apply to our environment a rational and critical intolerance? Intolerance to greed, prejudices, fears, customs, patriarchy and bigotry. An intolerance mixed up of combative spirit, politically active, peaceful, committed, in solidarity.
The outrage was born in the Arab Spring, demanding justice, democracy and freedom. Rational and peaceful intolerance will be a change in our set of values, applied to each pace in our daily life, towards a more just and egalitarian society.
Only greed, bigotry, corruption, prejudices, fears, customs of a patriarchal and intolerant society. All of them, human qualities that are the source of the greatest misfortunes of mankind.
And if they are human qualities that are behind such serious social and environmental injustices, wouldn't be expected that the opposite qualities could change the pace of this world?
If tolerance is a source of progress, it can also be a source of injustice, because everyone, in our environment, we witness and suffer, with some tolerance, corruption, greed, prejudices and many other slightly virtuous qualities inherent ourselves and those who share our existence. Silent witnesses to the human micro-plagues that globally devastate our world .
Thus, should not we apply to our environment a rational and critical intolerance? Intolerance to greed, prejudices, fears, customs, patriarchy and bigotry. An intolerance mixed up of combative spirit, politically active, peaceful, committed, in solidarity.
The outrage was born in the Arab Spring, demanding justice, democracy and freedom. Rational and peaceful intolerance will be a change in our set of values, applied to each pace in our daily life, towards a more just and egalitarian society.
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