Political Science 3388E Lecture 5: 3388
5 Feb 2019
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Depends on cultural relativity - age, sex, Biological reasoning doesn"t include certain groups (children) Rights of people who don"t exist yet/fetuses. Notion that hr should be universality but that begins to create problems. Groups: indigenous peoples, refugees, comatose, criminals - forfeit rights, disabled, children ( don"t have access to all human rights right away - voting, medical decisions, run for office. Biology - if you want human rights, you need to be human; why do you get something for being a lump of flesh; maybe it is a necessary but not sufficient condition. Just because some societies don"t give women human rights, doesn"t they have human rights. Criminals - we take their human rights away. When they are out, we give some of their rights back. Not absolute - still have rights in prison. Certain groups have rights (women, indigenous peoples) have rights but they aren"t recognized. Different countries have different views on laws.
