[WikiEN-l] Human rights localism (off: pictures)

[stevertigo]

Yes, I think this would be a case where a simple re-threading would be
absolutely required without exception.

-steven

On 9/25/07, Charlie <charles.baker at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hope this isn't too off-topic here, but do you really mean this about human
> rights?
>
> Do you mean that in the sense of the rhetorical flourish, that human rights
> don't exist if we don't enforce them, so lobby your government?
>
> Or do you literally mean that there is nothing more to human rights but our
> enforcement of them?
>
> Because if it is the second, then what human rights we have depend entirely
> on the local governments willingness and ability to enforce them.  If a
> government doesn't enforce a right not to be murdered, for example, how can
> you make the argument that they should, if the right has no existence?  To
> what principle can you appeal, if not the prior existence of a right?
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