Barash then asserts the "uniquely human potential to resist our own genes," and makes the further claim that it's exactly this ability that constitutes our humanity, thus making "rebellion" practically a duty.
Coming from the opposite direction, given that God is transcendent and cannot be related to any form of concrete reality, including human reality, how could the service of our own needs, which are a function of our humanity, constitute worship of God? God must be the exclusive locus of religious value, to the exclusion of human values.
By doing so, we recognize that our humanity is not constituted by our 'mastery' of something.
And yet in the case of Eritrea, the desire to stem the ever-increasing numbers of young refugees has led to an attempt to exonerate a regime which, as recently as June 2015, was described by the UN as perpetrating human rights violations that "may constitute crimes against humanity".
It concluded the regime was responsible "for systematic, widespread and gross human-rights violations that … may constitute crimes against humanity".
"In many instances, the violations of human rights found by the commission constitute crimes against humanity," says the report.
Some of these violations may constitute "crimes against humanity," it argued, citing "an array of human rights violations on a scope and scale seldom witnessed elsewhere..
The United Nations has condemned the country's all-pervasive control and systematic human-rights violations, saying such actions may constitute crimes against humanity.
The Home Office guidance is at odds with the findings of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea, which said the government is carrying out human rights violations so severe that they may constitute crimes against humanity.
The United Nations high commissioner for human rights says Colonel Qaddafi's use of lethal force may constitute crimes against humanity.
"The constitute crimes against humanity".
