Human Growth and Responsibility

Abstract

We were all born as human beings and then grew up by social upbringing within cultural environment. Since cultures always possess plural notion, language, tradition and religion are indispensably diverse. Nobody is sure about how many language, tradition, and religion that have existed throughout human history and have formed one's attitudes as individual, as a member of a society as well as a nation. From this point of view, we, human kind, are indeed one: living on one and the same earth. Yet, culturally, we have grown in diverse languages, religions, and cultures. Therefore, all human beings are constrained in the range of their possible experiences by the culture and society in which they live and were brought up. Only few realize that humanity is the first and foremost identity before and above anything else. Before one is a Muslim or a Christian, he or she is human being. We should recognize that every human being wishes to be human through his or her own path or faith. There is a Christian way to become human; there is an Islamic way to become human; and so forth. Thus, naturally all, without exception, intend to be human. All human beings are potentially ready to fight for their dignity, and against any form of inhumanity.