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"Human rights are what make us human. They are the principles by which we create the sacred home for human dignity." (Kofi Annan)
by jmartinpetersen 8y ago
"Human rights are what make us human. They are the principles by which we create the sacred home for human dignity." (Kofi Annan)
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- laretluval 8y agoSo for the vast majority of history we weren’t human?
- leothekim 8y agoEver hear of the phrase "Man's inhumanity to man?" Yeah that's been a thing since, well, humans have been around.
- k__ 8y agoI wouldn't consider this a static property. Back in the days it was humane to make many children because most of them would die. Today it may be more humane to make only a few but to invest more time into each.
- WalterSear 8y agoThat's doesn't make it more humane.
- didgeoridoo 8y agoGovernment protects your rights, it doesn’t create them or give them to you.
- EliRivers 8y agoI guess that depends on how you like to define humanity, doesn't it? If it's simply being a general sort of shape, or having a particular set of DNA, then perhaps being human is a simple yes/no. This creature isn't human, that creature is. If you like to define humanity as an ideal, or a process, or a goal, or some other such, then it becomes much more of a spectrum. All that said, anyone who does think in terms of binary when it comes to humanity needs keeping an eye on.
- krapp 8y ago> So for the vast majority of history we weren’t human? For any definition of "human" that is objective and universal, yes. If you swore fealty to the wrong lord, worshiped the wrong god, were born into the wrong clan, ethnic group or state, you were considered something less than human. And of course, nobles claimed descent from divinity, making them more than human. The concept of a common humanity with inalienable rights is relatively modern and in many places still controversial.
- eric24234 8y agoThis is very true in Indian caste system. In fact in indian caste ladder system, one become lesser human as one takes birth in the lesser caste hierarchy. Except the Brahmin community in the indian caste system others castes are denied education as per the vedas. During the british rule everone got access to education and every one is trying to be a equal human fighting the caste system.