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Posted by New Flyer #857 on Tue Jul 25 09:12:55 2017, in response to Re: Editorial: ''De Blasio's Subway Follies'', posted by Nilet on Mon Jul 24 22:53:04 2017. So you have me wrong. I too believe that rights transcend governments, and it is up to governments to get them right.I just wanted to get a better sense of your "source material" for said rights (that governments ideally would recognize). But I don't believe in any such thing as "basic morality" in a vacuum, so I find that response insufficient. That's more a sense of what you yourself think is good for everyone. From the fact that every single person would be hurt by their absence, gain from their presence, and thus has a strong incentive to demand their universal acknowledgement. Gain and harm suggest an absolute good and an absolute evil between which the world (or local government) can oscillate. Who determines these? How do you really know what is good and bad for someone? And don't you think that for just about every right there are at least some who stand to lose out because of it, if we are merely talking about each's own interest? Obviously if there was a consensus of basic morality out there, we'd be well on the way to having all governments recognize the same rights. The problem is, of course, that people's respective senses of basic morality differ, and such differences exist even among similar intelligence levels and lifestyles. And by the way, I'm a huge fan of democracy, though not all types of it. |
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