Assignment 3
In my opinion, I believe that everyone should have equal human rights. I agree with Wendy when she says that “Human rights matter because they help people help themselves”, and “HUman rights is te language that that systematically embodies the intuition tht each individual is entitled to equal moral consideration”. I do think that it is okay to believe that human rights is an antipolitical and expressle moral antidote to abusive political power, a defense against power, and a protection against pain, deprivation, and/or suffering. I think this means that if people knew that they have rights no one could try to take it away from them and that they should use it on a day to day basis. However, I think that women, especially women and those of lower classes, should know what their rights are so that no one could try to cheat them or try to take their rights away. I’m not sure if I understood it right, butthere was a part in the reading where I read that Ignatief says that there is a form of protection for those who trade a form of their protection for another, but I don’t understand why one must trade one right to have another. we should have full access and the ability to access all of our rights when we want to. I do agree with Brown because human rights should be fro everyone and not just to have to trade for another. in my understanding, human rights in the reading was used to invade Iraq and I don’t think that’s fair to the people of Iraq because if those with power are going to pick and choose when others have rights and when they don’t then there’s a problem. For me the reading wasn’t easy but Brown explains her reasoning on human rights and Ignatief’s reasoning on human rights I agree with Brown because to my understanding, she’s for human rights for everyone. “Is the prevention or mitigation of suffering promised by human rights the most that can be hoped for at this point in history”? I also think it is an important question to ask because human rights deserves to be supported and evenly distributed to individuals. At the end of the reading she talks about if this alone cannot be resolved then other political problems can’t be resolved.
