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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Statistical Jokes (11): Dying More Than Once
(source) Well, not exactly a joke, more like an unfortunate phrasing: “The group was alarmed to find that if you are a labourer, cleaner or dock worker, you are twice as likely to die than a member of the professional … Continue reading
Posted in comedy, statistical jokes, statistics, work
Tagged error, humor, joke, labor conditions, labor rights
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Political Graffiti (94): Corporate Responsibility
(source) More here and here on corporate responsibility – i.e. the responsibility of corporations to think about something more than profit, for example human rights. More political graffiti.
Human Rights Stories (14): Torture and The Brothers Karamazov
A short reminder of the purpose of this blog series: excerpts of novels or plays with an original perspective on human rights problems. This one is about torture: Tell me yourself. I challenge your answer. Imagine that you are creating … Continue reading
Posted in art, human rights story
Tagged Fyodor Dostoevsky, human rights, karamazov, literature, putin, Russia, story, torture
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The Ethics of Human Rights (28): Private Charity vs the Welfare State
In previous posts (here and here), I wrote about my personal views regarding the best ways to help the poor. In a nutshell, I favor private philanthropy or charity over the welfare state. Some of the reasons are: The welfare … Continue reading
Posted in data, economics, ethics of human rights, justice, philosophy, poverty
Tagged can implies ought, charity, closeness, crowding out, duty, economic rights, ethics, future, morality, ought implies can, philanthropy, redistribution, responsibility, spreading the wealth around, state, taxation, welfare, welfare state
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Human Rights Maps (84): Potential Migration
The Gallup Potential Net Migration Index estimates what would happen to countries’ populations if everyone in the world who wanted to migrate were able to, and if everyone who wanted to leave were also able to. So the index gives … Continue reading
Posted in citizenship, globalization, human rights maps, poverty, work
Tagged immigration, map, mapping, maps, migration, potential migration
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The Causes of Human Rights Violations (19): Ideology
(source) From Reinhold Niebuhr’s Moral Man and Immoral Society: Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that … Continue reading
Posted in causes of human rights violations, discrimination and hate, economics, education, equality, justice, philosophy, poverty
Tagged discrimination, equality of opportunity, flat tax, human rights, inequality, invisible hand, lottery of birth, luck, nietzsche, quote, redistribution, Reinhold Niebuhr, social mobility, taxation, trickle down economics
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Political Jokes & Funny Quotes (81): Racism
Keep mixing the races until we’re all the same grayish color – then there’ll be no more racism, once we’re all the same shade, man. ‘Hey, gray!’ ‘Who you callin’ gray, gray?’ And then we’ll actually be able to hate … Continue reading
Posted in comedy, discrimination and hate, equality, political jokes and funny quotes
Tagged hate, joke, political joke, politics, racism
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Human Rights Ads (45): Donate Your Coat to a Homeless Person
(source) More on homelessness. More human rights ads.
Posted in housing, human rights ads, poverty
Tagged ad, advert, advertising, homelessness, human rights ad
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Ironic Human Rights Violations (2): Suicide Watch on Death Row
In this series, I understand irony as “a state of affairs that appears perversely contrary to what one expects”. Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, a former prison psychologist, admits that he recognizes the irony. His state is keeping Lawrence Reynolds alive, … Continue reading
Posted in human rights violations, ironic human rights violations, law
Tagged death penalty, death row, human rights violations, irony, suicide
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