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hyperflare  ·  3326 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Can Refugees Have Human Rights?

That's not human rights though. Crimes are dealt with via the judicial system, and you still get your punishment. They don't get a disproportionate advantage by being allowed to go to school, or anything. Again, human rights are the very lowest common denominator of things everyone should be accorded simply by virtue of being human.





bioemerl  ·  3326 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Crimes are dealt with via the judicial system, and you still get your punishment. They don't get a disproportionate advantage by being allowed to go to school, or anything.

I am not referring to legal crimes, but crimes which are "fundamental". In this aspect, a crime is an action which infringes on the basic human rights of another.

Rights, as far as I see them, do not exist inherently, but are a near-universal treaty among human beings to treat each other with a basic level of respect. In order to have rights, you must respect them.

Outside of this treaty, or the "look guys I have empathy" play we all put on when we emphasize how sorry we feel for people in pain, rights do not exist.