RE: What Human Rights?
July 20, 2015 at 2:48 pm
(This post was last modified: July 20, 2015 at 2:49 pm by The Barefoot Bum.)
(July 20, 2015 at 1:48 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Sorry to burst your bubble Rythym, but you cannot asisign a property to something without knowing what that something is. You must put the human in human rights otherwise you're just bloviating like you normally do.
It is, of course, still not universally accepted that rights are actually intrinsic properties of anything. It doesn't matter much (in this context) what is or is not a human if rights are not intrinsic properties.
If, as I argue, rights are social relationships, then the issue becomes what sorts of things the social relationships of rights encompass, directly or indirectly, how they encompass those things, how we socially construct those relationships, and who performs that social construction.
Furthermore, even if we're talking about intrinsic properties, we have to decide which is logically prior: does X have property Y by virtue of it being X, or is is something X by virtue of having property Y?