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235: Human Rights

Classical Stuff You Should Know

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The Importance of a Minimum List of Human Rights

Not all human rights are inalienable. Some of them are very hard to lose. A small list means we can avoid the worst, but it and really human rights are not really trying to achieve the best. Right. Let us live. Let us pursue happiness. Don't take my liberty. But we're not trying to like create utopia. That's not what human rights are all about. We're just trying to stave off the worst offenses that can happen to a human. There is no inherent contradiction in the idea of an expansive list. Human rights could be a huge, long three page, four page, 100 page list of things that we should accord to human. And

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