We understand the world depending on a series of given rules and norms. These are often cultural though ever more inter cultural and international.
Families function thus, rights, human and other, are determined thus, wrongs are also so determined.
A paradigm colours our knowledge to an extent that that which falls outside this way of seeing and understanding is almost impossible to imagine. There is however a very interesting aspect to paradigms, when they are overturned all is possible. Until Roger Bannister ran the mile in under 4 minutes it was considered impossible, now almost everyone can do it. The same goes for Everest, which is now a camp sight littered with oxygen bottles, abandoned tents and equipment. An impression not necessarily coloured by the paradigms, the filters, through which we understand it.