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Hey all. What do you think should be the guaranteed rights that accompany the title of being human? In otherwords, what are the things that all humans should be able to have, and not have to earn or work for or gain overtime?
...with rights as it were, go responsibilities.
Justice Freedom the right to proper medical care {I wish} The right to die if life is made intolerable, through physical and/or mental illness. The right to have disabled access to every single building. To live free of parental domestic abuse. Defend one's property without being branded a potential killer for doing so. To be gay/bi/lesbian without fear of being beaten and threatened for it. Disabled people should be allowed to adopt providing they can adequately care for the child. To make political decisions without the interference of america. To walk through a large city at night without fear of being attacked by neds.
That depends on the government you're born into, that depends on the culture you're born into. That depends on the education you receive, that depends on how you look at life personally, that depends on your behavior. Being a part of the human family involves many different beliefs. In other words, being human means being part of a hierarchical structure, one in which even unwanted rights are imposed upon you, one in which rights are violated, one in which necessary rights are not given, one in which certain rights are kept secret from you. Tomorrow can bring the simplest event, and along with it may come a new right or set of rights. Human rights are always going to be something that others have either imposed on you to identify you as a human being, or they're going to be something that you fight for to make yourself feel like a human being, or they're going to be something that you lack and thus single you out as a human being. Human rights will always be conditional, because they're set by human beings.
Good topic.
I've thought about this a lot, because I hate money, but realize it's a necessary evil.
I do believe that the right to eat should be a basic right. With the boards of directors of our major companies making millions a year in bonuses, there shouldn't be one person in the world going hungry unless they choose to do so. How these assholes can sleep at night with homeless hungry people around them is beyond me.
I guess, the right to not eat should also be granted in all fairness, as some people may choose this as a way to end their life. So, for me, food would be at the top of human rights.
Somewhere below food should be the right to be respected by other human beings.
And further down the line would be "rights" like life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Just my thoughts.
Bob
How can you be so infantile when people are starving and many americans are grossly overweight.
Yeah true...I just think we have come to such an imbalance, ghe example that Goblin posted being one of them, I mean how can we have starvation and obesity at the same time? I personally believe that food and clean water should be two givens, since they are necessities, and that these should be established before anything else....att the same time, this can't be all, because what is a human life with necessity without purpose and freedom?
Absolutely! Smile