Recent questions tagged human rights

Description : As a follow up to the other question, why do some of you deem a fetus “human” before it is viable extra-utero?

Last Answer : Because they’ve inherited the language of a bad argument. The question of whether or not a fetus is biologically human has nothing to do with whether or not it counts as a moral person.

Description : Is it in the interests of groups like Amnesty International (and other human rights organizations) for wars to continue and evil to be done?

Last Answer : “Staying in business” for most workers in NGOs means doing heartbreaking work for very little money. I’m sure that most of them would be glad to give up “the business” if universal peace and well-being came into being.

Description : The Colorado baker who refused to make a cake for a gay couple is back in court. Why would anyone use him, especially if you knew his refusal history?

Last Answer : I guess they wanted to challenge him again. Like sitting at a segregated lunch counter during the Civil Rights period.

Description : Why do you feel that the U.S. is the only place that medicare for all or single payer isn't worth fighting for?

Last Answer : Lack of healthcare as a right almost killed my mother (gave her a heart attack and stroke) last year and forced her into early retirement and extreme poverty, Where should she have moved in anticipation?

Description : What do most people think of immediately re. human rights protected groups?

Last Answer : answer:“Protected class” refers to laws spelling out who is included when discrimination is banned. The Americans with Disabilities Act spells out who is covered. The Civil Rights Act covers race and religion. The Fair Housing Act specifies. Etc.

Description : Is suicide a human right?

Last Answer : answer:Yup. I wanked to the store and crossed two busy streets and could have offed myself at any time. How do you punish the act of suicide? I assume the suicider (George Bush word, not ... get better being punished is as stupid as Trump and his women being punished for getting a abortion nonsense.

Description : What else can we do?

Last Answer : I’m not sure what we can do but I’m reading Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities right now and the situations then and now are eerily parallel. Income inequality!

Description : Where can I find this Star Trek the Next Generation quote from Geordi La Forge and what is its deeper meaning?

Last Answer : answer:Season 5 Episode 13 – The Masterpiece Society “What If the answer to all of this is in a VISOR created for a blind man who never would have existed in your society. No offense intended.” He is talking about how eugenics, and making a point that all life has value.

Description : Will Americans ever allow human euthanasia to be legalized?

Last Answer : Well, physician-assisted suicide is legal in Oregon.

Description : What part of dictatorship, oppression and zero civil rights don't you understand?

Last Answer : Ummmm…. May I offer you some Xanax?

Description : Are universal suffrage and free elections good for everyone?

Last Answer : No. Democracy does not work for people below some level of intellect. In fact, no system of government works for them.

Description : What do you know about human traffcking?

Last Answer : If you want to help raise awareness or help get rid of human trafficking, look at this web site. Chainstorereaction.com

Description : Is this Political Correctness gone absolutely crazy?

Last Answer : Please provide a reliable source.

Description : Is it futile or contradictory to try to make Capital Punishment more humane?

Last Answer : Despite my objections to the practice, I think it's probably best to make capital punishment as humane as possible. It was recently shown in the documentary How To Kill A Human Being that it's quite ... person, not torturing them. And really, the lethal injection is not what I'd call humane'.

Description : Should access to healthcare be a basic human right?

Last Answer : I am a vote that healthcare is a right and not a privilege. In fact I have a very hard time understanding how someone can think differently.

Description : Can you justify the "don't ask, don't tell" policy of the military in the U.S.?

Last Answer : It is unjustifiable, but it was rationalized during the Clinton presidency as a “compromise” when it was, of course, cowardice.

Description : How would we treat Neanderthals if we discovered a small population in some uncharted region?

Last Answer : I would hire linguistics experts, sociologists and anthropologists to work as a team on a way to interact with the Neanderthals without taking them out of their environment and without doing lab work on them – I would protect their land and ways of being.

Description : Does anyone know how i can avoid crying when my right to speak freely is removed?

Last Answer : Grow a pair? That usually resolves the weeping. So this is your Question 2.0 in response to this?

Description : How do you feel about anti-Holocaust Denial laws?

Last Answer : If it’s against the law, how will we identify the deniers?

Description : Should I be able to recieve social security disability for PTSD?

Last Answer : You probably won’t be able to collect SSDI for PTSD under the circumstances you describe. The trauma happened as a kid, but you were able to function in a job for 9 years. It will probably require a different dx.