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Filed under: Uncategorized | November 4th, 2013
Message to the American Religious Freedom Program
As I see it religious freedom means the right to choose what package of religious beliefs one will embrace or to choose none. It does not mean one may display his/her choice in the eyes of others without limit. In that regard one is subject to the consensus of the whole population as to what is appropriate dress or sufficient dress in particular public places. Such rules prohibit nudity in public, for example. In addition, a particular style of dress that identifies a person as a member of a particular group can tend to divide people and is exacerbated if that group is generally disliked. Ostentatious bikers have this problem for example. Therefore, I think the criticism of religious garb in public places has a valid basis. This is especially true if that garb signifies that a woman is the chattel of some man which seriously conflicts with the Western World’s concept of human rights. The strength of the criticism will probably vary from place to place in accordance with public consensus.
Filed under: Comments to NGO's | October 30th, 2013
Comment on Yahoo News stories on the Syrian conflict
We need better reporting on the conflict in Syria. We need to have the various factions identified and their numbers estimated with some accuracy. We need to know the aims of these factions so we know which ones to help and which to condemn. The situation is not hopeless because the optimum outcome is possible if the right people are helped.
Filed under: Comments on News Stories | September 30th, 2013
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About The Author
Robert Stephen Higgins was born into a coal-mining family in Nova Scotia but grew up mostly in Southern Ontario. In 1964 he graduated from the University of Toronto in Mechanical Engineering and began his engineering career in the aero engine and aircraft fields. This included a period at the Boeing Airplane Company in Seattle as a material stress analyst on the 747 jetliner project. Worried that aircraft design projects were too discontinuous for raising a family he moved to the power industry. Through the 1970’s he was a design and project mechanical engineer on new oil and coal-fired power stations in Canada and the USA. Much higher pay and adventure called to him in taking a project engineering position for the construction of a nuclear power station in Argentina. He remained in the Canadian nuclear power industry as a design engineer until taking early retirement in 1999. Afterwards, he completed two consultant contracts in the nuclear field, the latter taking him to South Africa to manage a mechanical engineering department on a project to design and build a demonstration pebble-bed modular reactor (nuclear) which, unfortunately, was cancelled in 2008.
Robert was not just an engineer, however, but an interested student of the whole human story. History and archaeology were fascinating subjects, but closer to home the direction in which politicians, judges, and others in positions of power were taking society was of more serious concern. A public confrontation with the president of the large company (23,000 employees) for which he worked was a tipping point. Robert suggested that the employment equity program which the president was promoting would discriminate against white males. The president replied that he did not care if it did, he was going to implement it anyway. Reflecting on this interchange afterwards, Robert concluded that employment equity programs were more about designing society than about individual rights.
After retirement, he applied his long experience with objective analysis to discover what human rights really were. His book Human Rights, What Are They Really? was published in late 2008. More writing is ahead amid efforts to advance his own technical projects. “I am not a man of leisure”, says Robert.