Assignment 4
Moyn starts off by telling us what human rights are which is a set of global political norms providing the creed of a transitional social movement. Moyn then goes on to say that in the book The Origins of Totalitarianism, the new Universal Decleration of Human Rights states that “without communal inclusion, the assertation of rights by itself made no sense.” What I got from the reading was that since there weren’t equal rights or all, there was the creation of human rights to protect those who were subject to their rights not being equal to everyone else’s. Today, human rights are being limited, if not, taken away completely. They are also being taken away to benefit others. I know ive used this example before but I just want to make a point. So the example was that Donald Trump took away Muslim rights by banning them to travel. However, people are also using their human rights to protest the unfair acts that our “president” and what he is doing. For example, there has recently been a protest where people protest that Donald Trump is NOT our president. There was another protest where women marched for their rights because Donald Trump tried to take them. Also, this thought brings me back to one of the last discussions where I spoke about if you don’t know the full extent of your rights then it’ll be easy for someone to take them away from you. When Moyn stated “Because when human rights exploded in the 1970s they were focused so centrally on political and civil rights, their social and economic cousins have come to be regarded as “second generation” principles” I think it’s important to keep the original rights and if it must be tweaked to fit society then tweak it so that it makes everything, social, economic, political and civil rights, equal. I don’t think that just because the higher power tweaks the rights they add some and then either ignore or weaken the previous rights. Also what I got from the text was that concerns for inequality and socioeconomic deprivation even appeared in the bible so it’s nothing new, this has been a concern for centuries. Also when Moyn pointed out that places witnessed that their government provide visions of natural rights that weren’t too focused on self-preservation, they didn’t that because they don’t really want to zero in on rights on individuals. So what ii got from that alone was that they rather tell people as a whole that they have rights rather than telling them that as individuals they have their own set of rights. Moyn starts off by telling us what human rights are which is a set of global political norms providing the creed of a transitional social movement. Moyn then goes on to say that in the book The Origins of Totalitarianism, the new Universal Decleration of Human Rights states that “without communal inclusion, the assertation of rights by itself made no sense.” What I got from the reading was that since there weren’t equal rights or all, there was the creation of human rights to protect those who were subject to their rights not being equal to everyone else’s. Today, human rights are being limited, if not, taken away completely. They are also being taken away to benefit others. I know ive used this example before but I just want to make a point. So the example was that Donald Trump took away Muslim rights by banning them to travel. However, people are also using their human rights to protest the unfair acts that our “president” and what he is doing. For example, there has recently been a protest where people protest that Donald Trump is NOT our president. There was another protest where women marched for their rights because Donald Trump tried to take them. Also, this thought brings me back to one of the last discussions where I spoke about if you don’t know the full extent of your rights then it’ll be easy for someone to take them away from you. When Moyn stated “Because when human rights exploded in the 1970s they were focused so centrally on political and civil rights, their social and economic cousins have come to be regarded as “second generation” principles” I think it’s important to keep the original rights and if it must be tweaked to fit society then tweak it so that it makes everything, social, economic, political and civil rights, equal. I don’t think that just because the higher power tweaks the rights they add some and then either ignore or weaken the previous rights. Also what I got from the text was that concerns for inequality and socioeconomic deprivation even appeared in the bible so it’s nothing new, this has been a concern for centuries. Also when Moyn pointed out that places witnessed that their government provide visions of natural rights that weren’t too focused on self-preservation, they didn’t that because they don’t really want to zero in on rights on individuals. So what ii got from that alone was that they rather tell people as a whole that they have rights rather than telling them that as individuals they have their own set of rights.
