PSCI 3328 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: United Nations General Assembly, Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, International Criminal Court
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Process right - the right to choose what you want to do. Even if you are being forced to do what it is you choose, this violates process. Opportunity right - the right to do what you want to do. Being prevented from doing what you want to do violates opportunity. Doing what you want to do requires both the actual ability to do it and the means to do it. What a person is able to do or be. Physical or mental heterogeneities (disability or process to injury) Variations in non-personal resources (nature of public health care) Environmental diversities (threats from epidemic disease or from local crime. Different relative positions vis-a-vis others (norms in different cultures) If the listing of capabilities must be subject to the test of public reasoning how can we proceed in a world of differing values and disparate cultures? (p. 160) How do we define human rights: do they change over time.
