Many claim that the term ‘Human Rights’ is amorphous at best. Is it the right to security? The right to own property? Freedom to love and be loved? Does it deal with collective or individual rights?
More importantly, what is considered a right in some societies may simply be a form of sacrilege in others. The freedom of speech may simply propound blasphemy in some cultures and conventions like the ‘Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment’ may simply be curtailing the path to spiritual purification for the afterlife. Who determines that fine line between a right and a choice? Which cultural norms should prevail universally?
What we believe falls in the realm of human rights; how then would you make the distinction between a right and a choice?
October 30, 2007 at 7:16 pm |
I would just like to get the ball roling by asking you all where you think laws come from. What is the difference between law and morality?
What guidelines should be used in determining whether or not something violates Human Rights?
Rationality, religion, societal constraints?
What answer satsfies our great search for the origin of human rights?