I’ll bite.<\/p>\n
I support a policy based on respect for human rights, first and foremost.<\/p>\n
Secondly, I believe in human redemption and second chances.<\/p>\n
Third, I support policies, politics and ideologies that put human beings, preferably those who are born in disadvantageous positions, at the forefront.<\/p>\n
Also, the idea of “us the taxpayers”, is used to try and justify all kinds of oppression. I live in the EU. I am a citizen of the European Union, and as such, I am also a taxpayer, and have as much of a say as the conservative ideologues who only keep their self interest in mind when proposing legislation. I, like every other person, have also selfish motives. However, I have made it my life’s mission to try and look beyond those to better serve society as a whole. That is why I am active in local politics and why I spend so much of my time trying to promote the values of inclusiveness and respect that, I am convinced are the only thing that will prevent our further dehumanization and falling pray to extreme ideas.<\/p>\n
Also, I believe society is better served through a well rehabilitated criminal that is given chances, rather than by creating a group of social pariahs that can never prove their worth because we keep putting roadblocks in their social re-insertion. Disenfranchised people are hopeless people, people who cannot dream of a better future. Such nihilistic lives can never breed anything positive.<\/p>\n
And last, but not least, I believe in a concept that is rarely explored in policy making: I am a proponent of “the politics of empathy”. Because I know that the only difference between me and most petty criminals is just a matter of luck. The luck that afforded me the privilege that was denied to them. The luck that determined my birth in a wealthy family that could afford my multilingual education (amongst a multitude of other privileges that would be too long and tiresome to list here). Because of that luck I was afforded through no merit of my own, I owe it to those less fortunate to do everything I can so that they can try, hard as it might be, catch up with the many obstacles they might have encountered in their lives.<\/p>\n
A different world, a world where our inherent value is determined by our worth as “tax payers” is too painful for me to contemplate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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