Lafari@lemmy.worldcake to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agoWhy would someone openly say that they oppose human rights?message-squaremessage-square71fedilinkarrow-up1118arrow-down16
arrow-up1112arrow-down1message-squareWhy would someone openly say that they oppose human rights?Lafari@lemmy.worldcake to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square71fedilink
minus-squarefrankPodmore@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoFair enough. Sounds like you favour the idea of human rights but disagree on some specific conceptions of exactly what those rights are?
minus-squareMightEnlightenYou@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoIn the broad term I very much favour them. But when you actually read up on it a lot, like I have, the broad term loses its meaning and I always wonder what people actually mean by it when they say it.
minus-squarefrankPodmore@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoYeah, that’s fair enough. Similar to Foucault’s critique, IIRC.
Fair enough. Sounds like you favour the idea of human rights but disagree on some specific conceptions of exactly what those rights are?
In the broad term I very much favour them. But when you actually read up on it a lot, like I have, the broad term loses its meaning and I always wonder what people actually mean by it when they say it.
Yeah, that’s fair enough. Similar to Foucault’s critique, IIRC.