RE: Human rights

>===== Original Message From "McIntyre" <mcintyre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> =====
>Colin, without a concept of the human then there is no basis for human
>rights.

Maybe that's why the concept of a "human rights" that is universal is
problematic. Not only is
"human" a cultural construction, "rights" itself is also a product of society,
I don't see how anyone
can construct a set of "rights" that is uniquely inherent to all human.

Maybe I am just being an Asian [sic], but the concept of human rights seem to
be a set of "truth"
generated by westerners to exercise power in non-west culture. For one, it's
only ever regulated if
the U.S. can make a profit out of it (such as in Iraq), secondly, only western
elites have a voice in
discussing what constitute a part pf this set of "human rights."

Sorry to interrupt your discussion, I just find the concept of human rights to
be highly hypocritical.

-Cordelia

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The belief in truth is precisely madness - Nietzsche

I had been mad enough to study reason - Foucault


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