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I think what's important is respecting human rights, not ideological affiliation, and in that sense Hungary has noticeably regressed in the past decade.
by dessant 5y ago
I think what's important is respecting human rights, not ideological affiliation, and in that sense Hungary has noticeably regressed in the past decade.
- jsbdk 5y ago"human rights" is a liberal construct.
- dessant 5y agoI guess you will change your views about human rights when you and your family will be the ones being specifically targeted by your own government.
- hyper_dynamics 5y agoNo it's not.
- Dma54rhs 5y agoHuman rights are a human construct and constantly change over time.
- huetius 5y agoIf you deny any form of transcendence, which is the case in the positivist, technocratic culture of the West, then this is the inevitable conclusion.
- trasz 5y agoIt’s either this, or basing ones moral code on old wives tales.
- huetius 5y agoI am very much in favor of human rights. They are among the last, public vestiges of the “old wives tales” you denigrate, and could be problematized at any time. This could come from the political left, the political right, or some as-yet unrevealed historical force. Without recourse to the kind of transcendent, essential reality that positivism negates, we will have a very hard time defending them as anything other than a mutable, socially contingent prejudice.
- trasz 5y agoThat’s an interesting argument, given that the Catholic Church was - and largely still is - opposed to Human Rights, and fought fiercely against them. Remind me, when was the last time the Catholic pope argued against woman voting rights; it was ~1950, right?