GS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Raif Badawi, A Human Right, John Stuart Mill
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Gs101 lesson 12: human rights (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) We are all humans we possess a common humanity. A human right, therefore, is the right of every human being. Our common humanity is often referred to, religiously speaking, as common sanctity (sacredness of every human kind; every human being is sacred) Denial of our common humanity (of the sacredness of every human being) leads to human rights violations. Orend: the rights of humans everywhere , a non-violent respect for all persons o. Jean vanier, becoming human : the discovery of our common humanity and the sacredness of every human being, emphasis is on a universal relational unity. Ideally, we want them to be both morally and legally supported: if we believe that something is morally right, we"d like the law to support it. If something is legal, it isn"t always necessarily moral.
