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The Environment and Human Rights (8): Instrumental Environmentalism 26 Aug 2013 | 10:11 pm
scene from Blade Runner (source) At first sight, human rights are at best irrelevant to environmental concerns such as global warming, resource depletion, pollution, toxic dumping, deforestation, de...
Human Rights Ads (91): Liking Isn’t Helping 25 Aug 2013 | 03:18 pm
“Liking isn’t helping”, an ad for Crisis Relief Singapore. The copy: “Be a volunteer. Change a life.” The ad agency used real press photos, and then expertly Photoshopped in the “thumbs up” hands. (s...
Short Survey: When Was the Last Time You Changed Your Mind on a Major Moral Issue? 23 Aug 2013 | 02:22 pm
I go first: about a year ago I became convinced that there is no justification for our system of criminal punishment; and around the same time I had a similar insight about anti-immigration policies. ...
Exactly What I Thought When I Wrote That Last Post 23 Aug 2013 | 01:45 pm
And then it got ignored completely. I don’t understand people. PS: he even looks like me (minus the pipe and the fancy desk). PPS: if people change their minds there’s a PDF version here (handy for s...
Aggregating Rights (A Social Welfare Function Based on Human Rights) 20 Aug 2013 | 10:53 pm
(source) A social welfare function (henceforth SWF) ranks conceivable or possible worlds – also called “social states” – according to the aggregate levels of welfare they produce. Each social state ...
The Ethics of Human Rights (79): A Right to Do X ≠ X is the Right Thing to Do 20 Aug 2013 | 12:37 am
Santa wagging his finger I’ve argued before that human rights and morality are at best two partially overlapping domains. Many human rights imply a right to do wrong: free speech includes the right t...
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (141): Operation Desert Storm and the Highway of Death 18 Aug 2013 | 10:32 pm
A US Military graves detail buries the bodies of dead Iraqi soldiers killed along the “Mile of Death”, on the road between Kuwait City and Basra, north of Kuwait City, 1991, by Peter Turnley Apocalyp...
Human Rights Ads (90): Last Meal 17 Aug 2013 | 10:29 pm
“This was Ruben Cantu’s last meal. Executed in 1993. Proved innocent in 2010.” (source) I guess it(s not an image of his actual last meal, but a “reproduction”. More on Ruben Cantu. More on capital ...
What is Freedom? (13): Five Increasingly Demanding Types of Freedom 14 Aug 2013 | 10:25 pm
(I’ll explain this image in a minute!!) Here are 5 increasingly demanding, and also increasingly complex definitions of freedom: 1. Freedom is being free from coercion and being able to do what you ...
Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (140): Agent Orange Victims 13 Aug 2013 | 10:20 pm
Agent Orange Victims by James Nachtwey (source) The whole story, including more images. More on Vietnam. More iconic images of human rights violations.
