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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (41588)6/22/1999 11:37:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (4) of 108807
 
I'm a little uneasy with the entire concept of basic human rights, or maybe specifically "inalienable" human rights. These are figments of a civilized society - perhaps that is even definitive.
In an uncivilized society - be it either a Paleolithic tribe or a morally inconsistent contemporary state - the only true human rights are 1) suffering and 2) death.

Building a societal consensus to secure more goodies as human rights - like the right to a trial, or the right to title over property, or now the right to some basic level of education - this is never as easy as college-age liberal firebrands imagine. There are so many tradeoffs in a real society. What price dignity? What price morality? Maybe this is the previously unexpressed central engine of the schooling debate. Whut y'all thaink?
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