Which book’s world would be the absolute worst to live in?
The movie “To kill a mockingbird” was adapted from the Harper Lee novel published in 1960. The book was so popular in America that the movie was released two years later in 1962. Today in education around the world, To kill a mockingbird is core literature read in a majorly of high schools.
The main premise reminds the reader that racism or discrimination of any kind can cause bigger problems down the road. I would like to discuss this on a behaviour analysis style.
The main African-American character is falsely accused of murder as the most likely stereotype to have committed such an atrocity. He is a poorly educated man who cannot communicate well enough to provide his own alibi or defence. This poses a problem as an innocent man was pinpointed based on the likelihood that the police could have a closing conviction to add to the notches on the belt so-to-speak.
When police make assumptions based on a “path of least resistance”, they make deadly decisions for others without the consent of the person they are affecting. The entire arrest was unethical but condoned by the angry community wanting someone (anyone really) to pay for the crime of murder of a beloved white community member.
I would hate to live in a world where racism of that level exists.
We have moved on so far with Western and Eastern advances in technology, science, defence and military, and engineering. Every single day we get closer to Artificial Intelligence gaining us access to eternal life. If we figure out how to reverse the breakdown of matter through oxidisation, we will increase the useful lives of assets, increase the average life span, get closer to curing cancer and a number of other insidious diseases, and have more time to enter into educated discussions regarding the advancement of mankind, the harnessing of the Kardashev capabilities, and climate change mitigation strategies and action plans.
I digress.
I do not want a world where violence and hatred exists. Racial discrimination is already protected by virtue of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) and under section 9, the following legislative elements exist in protection of unlawful racial discrimination:
9 Racial discrimination to be unlawful
(1) It is unlawful for a person to do any act involving a distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of any human right or fundamental freedom in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life.
(1A) Where:
(a) a person requires another person to comply with a term, condition or requirement which is not reasonable having regard to the circumstances of the case; and
(b) the other person does not or cannot comply with the term, condition or requirement; and
(c) the requirement to comply has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, by persons of the same race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin as the other person, of any human right or fundamental freedom in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life;
the act of requiring such compliance is to be treated, for the purposes of this Part, as an act involving a distinction based on, or an act done by reason of, the other person’s race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin.
(2) A reference in this section to a human right or fundamental freedom in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life includes any right of a kind referred to in Article 5 of the Convention.
(3) This section does not apply in respect of the employment, or an application for the employment, of a person on a ship or aircraft (not being an Australian ship or aircraft) if that person was engaged, or applied, for that employment outside Australia.
(4) The succeeding provisions of this Part do not limit the generality of this section.
https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A00274/latest/text
For tonight, I will leave you with this quote:
Atticus Finch
“Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
Until tomorrow,
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