On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > raghu: "Second and completely unrelated to Obama's sincerity or lack > thereof > is the appropriateness of economic arguments on a subject that is really > about basic human rights and decency." > > Millions, probably billions, of people oppose torture and imprisonment > without trial. Those can be among the principles of unity for a huge global > movement. Why all this redundant babble about "basic" human rights? It > makes > no sense. Where do those (or any) rights come from? > > How do you defend the abstract proposition, "Rights exist." Where do they > exist ?
I don't know what the fuss is about. I didn't claim that there was such a thing as "human rights" that "exist" in some philosophical sense. Like you, I too believe that "we" should demand and fight for certain rights. I didn't realize that I had claimed anything more than that. -raghu.
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