Avainsana: human rights
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Inclusion – the idea of including and keeping everyone involved
Inclusion means that everyone is involved, there is diversity among people, and that there can be no division into “normal” and “abnormal” people. Everyone is different and equal. The UN Salamanca Declaration of 1994 set inclusion as a goal in all education. Inclusion does not only apply to education, but is a much broader concept…
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Nazism and otherness – the shadows of Nazism over the world
Klaus Härö’s film Ei koskaan yksin (2025), about Abraham Stiller, who saved Jews during the war, is very touching and the ending in particular brings tears to the eyes. The film is reminiscent of Schindler’s List in many ways. Abraham Stiller is a great hero who prevented the extradition of all Finnish Jews to Germany,…
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Popper, ”paradox of tolerance”, Hitler, Trump and the modern far-right
The Austrian-British philosopher Karl Popper wrote in his book ”Open society and its enemies” in 1945 about the ”paradox of tolerance” and warns of the danger of fascism and its bystanders. The paradox goes roughly like this: If tolerant people tolerate and accept intolerance, it follows that intolerant people like fascists and Nazis will take…
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The Dark history of fundamentalism from the murder of Hypatia to the present
On 22 October 1988, at the Paris premiere of Martin Scorsese’s film The Last Temptation of Christ, ”Christian” fundamentalists attacked the cinema with firebombs. 13 were injured, one fatally. The fundamentalists’ reason for the attack was a scene in the movie where Jesus feels a sexual attraction to Mary Magdalene.The roots of Christian terror are…
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Civilization and enlightenment – humanity’s path from darkness to light
The year 1995 is not far away in history. In Finland, we listened to the Spice Girls, 2Pac and Oasis. Children played with Tamagotchi and Play Station. Windows -95 had appeared. The Soviet Union had fallen and Finland had joined the EU. Today’s young adults lived their childhood. However, a bloody war was going on…
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The most dangerous persons on Earth, TOP-5
The most dangerous people in the world right now is the topic of this blog post. The state of the world has changed a lot in the last ten years. In the past, the most dangerous would definitely have included terrorists such as Osama Bin Laden, who was killed by US special forces Navy Seal…
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Elysium – A Good Earth in the Year 2122
I present a thesis: the world’s problems are caused by relationships. Ecological problems, i.e. environmental problems, arise from the fact that man’s relationship with nature is broken, and social, i.e. societal problems, such as wars and poverty, from the fact that man’s relationship with other people is broken. In the Bible, the relationship between God…
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The roots of capitalism and fair economics – in fair play everybody wins
Bhopal, India On December 3, 1984, Union Carbide’s insecticide factory, owned by the US giant Dow Chemicals, releases huge amounts of toxic methylisocyanate into the air and water bodies in a short period of time. 3,500 people die from terrible poisoning symptoms, tens of thousands are injured, and later another 50,000 locals die from diseases…
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