Assignment 3
The essayist Wendy Brown, in her essay ““The Most We Can Hope For…’ Human Rights and the Politics of Fatalism,” provides arguments of the moral nature of human rights activism. Whether if it fully serves its goal to maintain an adequate response and consistency to aiding humanity at its points of struggles, of which there will be contentions violating societies rights. Furthermore, if such determinations to overcome the challenges that compromise the humanistic rights are authentic in itself, then there wouldn’t be an inclination towards a self-indulge greed of abuse against its fundament of protecting humanistic rights. For most of Brown’s essay, the Canadian author Michael Ignatieff incites us to unfold with cues of pensive approach towards how we should examine the true purpose of an initiative towards aiding those who may need their human rights to be defended, along the discussion of the insincere purpose behind outcome of those who in pretending to help the struggled, abuse it.
It is true, as Brown suggests, that human rights activism is not solely purposefully for the nature of defending the struggled. That the integral belief of human rights activism is not only a shelter towards one or some particular groups of defenseless, but a charged strike offensively breaking the traditional forms of civil societal norms throughout the globe (Brown 453). With such rigor of self-empowerment that ascends within the self-humane being, the overcome decision of taking an initiative to take upon the struggle, candidly individualizes itself into partaking a contentious approach of not only playing a one-sided role of defense. Such advance phases into breaking the presumptive limited role of human rights activism, shifting gears of a determined objective containing a reasonable principle by then not having any regard in the consequences that could lead to a misfortune (Brown 455).
The energetic perseverance of one’s self ground acceptance human rights activism, brings into mind of how its performance plays a role economically. Having on one side the contribution of goods given towards those who expect to receive it because of their dire needs and then at the same time as much that is given, how its handouts can financially promote an enhanced commercial guarantee of not dwindling (Brown 456). It may seem that the steps towards having an understanding in agreeing in an arrangement in receiving the support may have taken to acknowledge the rights of those who have been suppressed. The acts of “kindness” of the state powers may have been understood in supporting the purpose of action of the activist, not realizing that perhaps it is a form of silencing the victims of whom may have felt a victory to covertly restrict the purpose of fighting for human rights.
