The reader is reminded that whatever the justification for oppression in the end oppression is something inflicted on human
beings by other human beings.
That's why all these rules are in the bible, because human beings don't like being told what to do, especially
not by other human beings.
Not only that, we are told that we should not question anything in the Bible but to just take on faith that everything
written by these other human beings is totally the way that everything works.
We must constantly remember that the God of Israel manifests himself historically for the first time in the Exodus as the one who liberates human beings from the slavery
established by other human beings.
Recognition by other human beings figures centrally among our dignity needs, and being either included or excluded from various forms of human relations has significant consequences for our wellbeing.
In the artist's own words: «Much of what drives my work is looking at things
made by other human beings and the urge to communicate embedded in those objects.
Rorty would have us become «liberal ironists,» people who are sufficiently nominalist and historicist to appreciate their own fallibility and the radical contingency of their fundamental beliefs and desires, and yet who «include among these ungroundable desires their own hope that suffering will be diminished, that the humiliation of human
beings by other human beings may cease» (CIS xv).
Anne Van der Meiden uses the term «responsism,» saying that «human beings in their ethical behavior respond to the appeals sent to
them by other human beings.