RE: What Human Rights?
July 16, 2015 at 10:10 pm
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2015 at 10:18 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
@Jenny
Not everyone gets the right to remain silent, even here. It still exists. Again, whether or not a person can exercise a right at any given time won't tell you whether or not that right exists. Two different subjects. Saying that a human right exists, and justifying the existence of that right can be fairly simple....getting folks to sign on with it, or enforce it.....not so simple.
@Cath, an impossible standard is being set for rights. For example, inalienability. -Nothing- is inalienable. If a right must be inalienable to be a human right, or to exist, then no human has any rights whatsoever (no...not even to private thought.....I can get at your private thoughts without any sci-fi - or I could just hit you over the head with a brick). We get pissy because we feel that even if a person is not capable of exercising a right to liberty, for example, that right still exists. I presume that you would agree?
Not everyone gets the right to remain silent, even here. It still exists. Again, whether or not a person can exercise a right at any given time won't tell you whether or not that right exists. Two different subjects. Saying that a human right exists, and justifying the existence of that right can be fairly simple....getting folks to sign on with it, or enforce it.....not so simple.
@Cath, an impossible standard is being set for rights. For example, inalienability. -Nothing- is inalienable. If a right must be inalienable to be a human right, or to exist, then no human has any rights whatsoever (no...not even to private thought.....I can get at your private thoughts without any sci-fi - or I could just hit you over the head with a brick). We get pissy because we feel that even if a person is not capable of exercising a right to liberty, for example, that right still exists. I presume that you would agree?
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