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  A reply on Conversation: What are human rights? How do we decide and are they universal?

  Dec 21 2011: this one was brilliant:) Thanks!
  
  The right to pursue my own existence derived from the fact that I exist. (as a human, as an animal, insect, plant, etc.)
  
  The right to freedom of thought, should I know what that thinks like. (if i do not know i am thinking, and then i exist)
  
  The right to pursue breeding, and placing the value of the welfare of those bred over the welfare of others. Derived from the biological imperative.(all are eating each others but never eat up all totally, or all are eating each others but all stays like alive)
  
  The right to own two things, the one in my right hand, and the one in my left. This of course derives from my bipedal nature.(and third one is in the mouth. monkey has four hands)
  
  The right to place my groups value system above that of others, deriving from the necessity of community in ongoing tribal existence and competition for resources. (the right to struggle and to other entertainments)
  
  The right to a provincial, self-centered viewpoint of the world, derived from brain physiology. (and from body psychology)
  
  The right to take what I can from those weaker that I. Because it's an ape eat ape world, and we would not have survived to come so far if we din't know the virtues of a monkey sandwich. (to ape monkey to eat a sandwich )
  
  The right to dream that it could be better. That one I think, is just human nature. (to dream to have more dreams)
  
  And thankfully, the right to construct fanciful moral grounds to unperpin my emotive appreciation of what life should be, and then offer that construct on others. This last being derived from the desire for a good life, and the realization I am unlikely to have it for myself, unless I also share it with a group. (with real or dreamed group)
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  A comment on Conversation: What are human rights? How do we decide and are they universal?

  Dec 21 2011: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights appeared and had the possibility of existing only in relatively recent times. Before the 20th century people discussed only the rights of different groups. The Bill of Rights of England, the Bill of Rights in the United States, and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in France are not the forms of universal human rights. They have constituted mostly the limited political and legal agreements within specific political circumstances without constituting of universal human rights.
  Neither the Greeks nor the Romans had any concept of universal human rights; slavery, for instance, was justified both in ancient and modern times. The impulses which led to creation of the concept of universal human rights occurred in 20th century during a time which is known to us as democratic. Within the democracy not only the philosophers, but all people became able to accept a thinking concerning the question of what the human being is, and about the meaning of this in a universal sense.

• A reply on Conversation: What are human rights? How do we decide and are they universal?

  Dec 21 2011: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights appeared and had the possibility of existing only in relatively recent times. Before the 20th century people discussed only the rights of different groups. The impulses which led to creation of the concept of universal human rights occurred in 20th century

• A comment on Talk: Jody Williams: A realistic vision for world peace

  Dec 19 2011: New thinking in our principally new epoch, reaching world peace and harmony
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