Values Are Not What Humanity Is, But What Humanity Ought To Be

Every society in general is bound together by common and shared values, about what is good, right and desirable. These values are increasingly important in understanding cross-national variations in political outcomes, such as socio-political institutions and the way they function. Even though individuals may not fully adopt the values their society emphasises, however, their ways of thinking, acting and behaving are affected by them.

Defining humanity may not be so simple, but broadly it encompasses a feeling of mutual love and mutual co-existence, wherein people tend to help each other and respect each other’s social, religious, customary and physical existence in ....