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Essay / The X Factor Category - 1382
Malcolm to be respected as a human being, to receive the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, on this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary. According to Malcolm X, every person on earth has the right to be called a human being and to enter into the category of human beings; it doesn't matter if they are young, old, disabled or incompetent. Yet, if we looked back on our past, we didn't seem to count how many times these so-called human beings treated other people sharing the same characteristics of human beings as inferior creatures. It's as if to have some form of equality, there always has to be a group of people treated as inferior. According to Francis Fukuyama, author of “Human Dignity,” if we were to live according to his idea of the X factor, the world would be more equal. Apart from the contingent and accidental characteristics of the person, there remains underneath an essential human quality that deserves a certain minimal level of respect (Fukuyama 186). In all honesty, it seems like a good idea at first, but people will always find another reason or characteristic to say that one group of people is better than another. How does Factor X impose limits and restrictions on those who fall into the Factor X category? How can the X factor be improved or modified to include them? Do we then have to create another type of X-factor to create equality again or will we as humans accept the fact that there can never truly be fairness, b…. .. middle of paper ...... it's taken away before I even had a chance to use them. They no longer have a choice in how they want to live their lives, their political feelings or their social interactions, either because they are different or because they do not possess the X factor. These people possess what Fukuyama calls accidental characteristics, which make them incapable of being categorized under Factor adapt to these people, who would be the new group of people who do not fit into the X factor category? If we look at the past, there has always been a group of people who do not fit into the general population and are considered inferior. Even in the present, these are the types of people, so if this was done in both the past and the present, what does that leave for the future ?.