Human rights are absolute and indivisible. Be firm, Lev-like One, and check every iota of the wording and syntax. Every iota.
Exactly what I did. I argued against the idea of "sectional" human rights (if they're not for the entire species, then it's not a human right) and that they were universal and timeless, not to be subject to the vagaries of the political climate.
You're compeletly right about the dignity thing as well.
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Date: 2005-07-09 04:38 pm (UTC)Human rights are absolute and indivisible. Be firm, Lev-like One, and check every iota of the wording and syntax. Every iota.
Exactly what I did. I argued against the idea of "sectional" human rights (if they're not for the entire species, then it's not a human right) and that they were universal and timeless, not to be subject to the vagaries of the political climate.
You're compeletly right about the dignity thing as well.