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Inviolability

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in·vi·o·la·ble  (n-v-l-bl)
adj.
1. Secure from violation or profanation: an inviolable reliquary deep beneath the altar.
2. Impregnable to assault or trespass; invincible: fortifications that made the frontier inviolable.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin inviolbilis : in-, not; see in-1 + violre, to violate; see violate.]

in·vio·la·bili·ty, in·vio·la·ble·ness n.
in·vio·la·bly adv.


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But when this idea is perpetuated for domestic consumption, reinforced and reified by political as well as academic discourses, the belief in one's uniqueness, in this case Thainess, and its inviolability, has become a powerful and productive, albeit dangerous, ideology in politics and social practices, even in the country's relations to its neighbours.
On the one hand, the affirmation of freedom of conscience promotes appreciation for the inviolability of the human personality.
Killing English, Spaniards, Kenyans or Indonesians is no less an outrage than killing Americans, but it does not drag the red cape in front of so formidable an enforcer of its national inviolability.
 
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