‘What are human rights and where do they come from?’, asks Professor Conor Gearty in the latest Burning Issue lecture from the London School of Economics and…
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The UK claims to protect human rights, but is the biggest abuser of them.
This country IS modern day Nazi Germany. We have no economy and abuses of
citizens are kept under the radar. I am leaving this place because I know
from personal experience I HAVE NO HUMAN RIGHTS HERE. This fascist (=about
control, not racism) regime is about ETHIC cleansing of people who believe
in freedom and try to be of good nature. I was born here, and have lived
many other places – I know what I say is true – though many would disagree
and live in the delusion/lie that this is a fair, free and honorable
country.
Discrimination is one of the major problems that humanity is facing since
long time ago. While in the past it was common and even taken up naturally,
the human mind has evolved enough to begin to believe in tolerance. That’s
why it never hurts to think and reflect on this topic.
@Scientisticsoviet Rights can be tolerated and exercised on mutual
agreements. Rights that come from cultural background are not enforced by
anyone or even written anywhere, they are followed out of mutual respect.
It would be much more simple if one structure could enforce rights, but it
isn’t. Rights and power are two terms not necessary related to each other.
Rights exist even between chimps and bonobos. Do they have governments?
20:20 There is something on his head O.o
@Scientisticsoviet So an “enforcing power structure (like the state)”
should dictate you how you interct with your kids? And what if that
“enforcing power structure (like the state)” will enforce you to kill your
children? Rights come from our interactions, instincts, ethics and social
standards.
@SEThatered Would you say that private property is a right? And so, how
would you explain the Bolshevik revolution? The idea of ‘‘rights’’ comes
from the people but the state is the one who makes them available for the
population.
thought provoking……..some very pertinent questions and statements
relating to the most apparent, yet often ignored, facts of life……
Except that when it comes to the crunch we so often seem to act as if we
have no choice. People dive into freezing water to rescue swimmers in
danger, people in Syria run into the path of bullets to drag the wounded to
safety. Surely the point is that there is some deep unconscious instinct
working inside each of us that drives us to act even when reason tells us
that to do so would be to risk our own lives. In moments of extreme crisis
we seem to treat complete strangers as brothers or sisters.
Great idea!
“Inthenameofhumanrights. C om” (copy-paste and it show directly) Link to
free literature on Human.Rights, duties, social, political issues, justice,
equalitarianism, well-being, spirituality, spiritualism, veganism,
environmentalism, LGBT (rainbow).
It´s his horns Fucking Devil
This will sound like a naive question. Are human rights inherent to all
human beings? Whether someone exercises the notion of reaching out for
their own cause and others or whether they offer it to another can human
beings ever fall outside of these two notions? Human rights on this premise
seems tied into choice. Choice in opposition of thoughts/feelings and then
action based on choice rather than thought/feeling. So the idea of
conviction isn’t inherent, it’s designed as a product of choice.
if youve all got so many words you should write a flippin’ bwook.
This lecture is missing the fundamental foundation to rights. See the newly
released book titled: “Scientific Proof of Our Unalienable Rights.” This
book covers the first known scientific proof to these Rights, taking the
discourse out of the ivory tower for all to understand.