HONR 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Subset, Universal Declaration Of Human Rights
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What would pogge say: shue: concerned with all humans, pogge: within same social structures, but now we are in some sort of same social structure as an international community-- so depends on how connected you think everyone is. Most common method: creating or maintaining unjust laws or construing existing laws to work in favor of the violation. More hideous than private rights violations because aside from harming lots of people and their severity: Hide behind laws and are committed publicly. Deprive people of the object of their rights and attack rights. In many governmental branches, an action is more so considered a human rights violation if closely related to job and the more tolerated the action is in that branch (police torture is more so than murder by a mailman) Even if government does not violate human rights, it still counts as violation if it does nothing to protect citizens/enforce laws.
