Marc,

Diversity is indeed a difficult subject but the difficulty of getting it 
perfect should not prevent us from making efforts where it is feasible.

The questions of religion and political viewpoint are some of the thorniest 
ones, since there is dispute about how much religion and political viewpoint 
are "inherited" and how much are "by choice". Of course race is also socially 
defined and dependent on geography and time period (there was a recent 
article on how "Latinos" in the USA may soon come to be viewed as "White" in 
much the same way that Jews are now mostly so-regarded despite historically 
being a significantly oppressed group.

As we're both variants of atheist/humanist, I'm not sure how productive a 
discussion between us on the status of religion could be.


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Professor Andrew A Adams                      [log in to unmask]
Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/