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Monthly Archives: November 2009
The Most Absurd Human Rights Violations (15): Prayer is the Best Cure
(source) The mother of an 11-year-old girl who died of undiagnosed diabetes as the family prayed for her to get better testified Tuesday that she believes sickness is caused by sin and can be cured by God. Leilani Neumann told … Continue reading
Posted in health, horror, most absurd human rights violations
Tagged absurd, cure, health, human rights violations, prayer, sickness
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Moral Dilemma (6): Involuntary Organ Donor
A transplant surgeon has five patients, each in need of a different organ, each of whom will die without that organ. Unfortunately, there are no organs available to perform any of these five transplant operations. A friend of the doctor … Continue reading
Posted in health, moral dilemmas
Tagged ethics, moral dilemma, morality, organ harvesting, organ trade, philosophy
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The Ethics of Human Rights (24): Richard Rorty on Human Rights and Sympathy
(source) Richard Rorty has an interesting take on human rights. If we want universal acceptance of and respect for human rights, we shouldn’t try to argue about it. We shouldn’t attempt to work out rational justifications of human rights, or arguments that … Continue reading
Posted in art, books, equality, ethics of human rights, philosophy
Tagged caring, david hume, dehumanization, emotions, hannah arendt, human rights, humanity, immanuel kant, morality, philosophy, rorty, sentimental, slavery, sympathy
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The Most Absurd Human Rights Violations (14): Arrested for Excessively Noisy Sex
(source) Via Reason.com: The bizarre and terrifying situation where a woman has been arrested for having sex too loudly. In modern-day Britain, even the decibels of our sexual moaning can become the subject of a police investigation. At the end … Continue reading
Posted in law, most absurd human rights violations, privacy
Tagged 1984, absurd, anti-social behavior, arbitrary arrest, ASBO, human rights violations, loud sex, orwell, privacy, sex, UK
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Human Rights Ads (33): HIV/AIDS
(source) More on HIV/AIDS and human rights here. More human rights ads here.
Posted in health, human rights ads
Tagged ad, advert, advertising, aids, benetton, HIV, human rights ad
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Political Graffiti (73): Religious War
More on religious war here and here. More political graffiti here.
Posted in political graffiti, war
Tagged political graffiti, politics, pope, religion, religious war, war
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Migration and Human Rights (23): The Recession and Reverse Remittances
I’ve discussed the negative effects of the current economic recession on human rights several times before on this blog. I’ve focused on the right not to suffer poverty, because that’s obviously one human right that is particularly affected by the … Continue reading
Human Rights Maps (71): Voting Rights for Felons in the U.S.
(source) A slightly different version: (source, click on the image to enlarge) And yet another version: Taking away someone’s human rights can only be done for a good reason, for example if this is necessary in order to protect other … Continue reading
Posted in democracy, human rights maps, justice, law
Tagged capital punishment, crime, death penalty, deterrence, disenfranchisement, elections, felons, map, maps, one man one vote, prison, punishment, u.s., vote, voting rights
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Statistical Jokes (4): Sample Size
A statistics professor was describing sampling theory to his class, explaining how a sample can be studied and used to generalize to a population. One of the students in the back of the room kept shaking his head. “What’s the … Continue reading
Posted in comedy, statistical jokes, statistics
Tagged humor, joke, sample, sample size, survey
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The Causes of Poverty (28): Family Structure
(source) Almost 30 percent of children [in the U.S.] now live in single-parent families, up from 12 percent in 1968. Since poverty rates in single-parent households are roughly five times as high as in two-parent households, this shift has helped … Continue reading
Posted in causes of poverty, poverty
Tagged child poverty, divorce, egalitarian, family, family structure, income inequality, marriage, nordic, public spending, quote, single parents, taxation, u.s.
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