it is proven and universally accepted that The DNA structure carries characteristics and qualities of species which are inherited from ancestors.Now according to this can we justify a hereditary social caste system among Hindus?
2007-01-24 04:12:14 · 9 answers · asked by vanpandy 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Of course not.
The idea is postmodernist, collectivist and tsaristic.
How would you find out who's the best baseball players, or actors or shoemakers?
You offer training to those who want to learn the skill.
Then you judge the players against a categorizing standard, consisting of 5-6 prioritized "things a baseball player, an actor, a shoemaker has to be able to do." The person who's best in each field at the most important qualities AND does not fail any of the requirements gets to play baseball for money, be an actor and be employed to make shoes.
A caste system would deny all these individual-based activites, and substitute arbitrary assumptions about the individual based on genetic past history.
Yes, the right genetic heritage can improve one's chances of inheriting the genes that will help you succeed in some way in some field. But unless you get training, do hard work and have the opportunity to compete against a category-level value standard--you'll lack rights in the matter.
And nobody can "judge" how good you'd be at that activity if these things had been in fact afforded to you along with your genes.
A caste is: "a collective run by a god-playing tsar in the government refusing rights to all persons belonging to some population group, solely because they are the genetic "offspring" of people enslaved at some level in the past by his government.".
Does that sound realistic, sane, American, just?
Or does it sound like an excuse to keep some people in slavery, where their ancestors were kept also?
2007-01-24 04:26:18 · answer #1 · answered by Robert David M 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You gave your own answer. DNA carries the *species* information i.e. the human species. This does not justify any caste or racial discrimination.
2007-01-24 12:17:45 · answer #2 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, like Betty says, what does that have to do with the caste system of Hindus?
2007-01-24 12:17:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you can't justify that. What you have just said is "people are different, and it's because of DNA, therefore we can discriminate". Discrimination of people for most differences - race, gender, religion, etc. - is generally not justifiable, or even sustainable.
2007-01-24 12:17:13 · answer #4 · answered by Steven D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What do species have to do with a caste system? All humans are the same species- even the same subspecies.
2007-01-24 12:16:38 · answer #5 · answered by Betty Mae Bop 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No morally speaking
2007-01-24 12:16:41 · answer #6 · answered by braycam04 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but will we be able to sleep at night ?
2007-01-24 12:18:11 · answer #7 · answered by Bertie D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you think to much
2007-01-24 12:17:09 · answer #8 · answered by conan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2007-01-24 12:17:12 · answer #9 · answered by revdauphinee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋