Re:Google Doodle Upholds Gay Rights Ahead of Sochi Olympics
by einhverfr on Friday February 07, 2014 @07:24AM
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Please, so that we can test such an assertion:
1. Define human rights
2. Provide a methodology by which they can be objectively known.
Is a right to be left alone to one's culture a human right? Is a right not to be deprived by outside powers of one's native language a human right? And who gets to set the limits on the outer limits of such a right? (i.e. is the right to advocate the position that genocide of, say, black folk, is desirable a human right? What about pornography?).
My own sense is that usually these have no epistemology behind them and are based solely on projecting one's a priori assumptions onto the world.
1. Define human rights
2. Provide a methodology by which they can be objectively known.
Is a right to be left alone to one's culture a human right? Is a right not to be deprived by outside powers of one's native language a human right? And who gets to set the limits on the outer limits of such a right? (i.e. is the right to advocate the position that genocide of, say, black folk, is desirable a human right? What about pornography?).
My own sense is that usually these have no epistemology behind them and are based solely on projecting one's a priori assumptions onto the world.