11/ which I can take no personal credit, developed in the West but which are the best means of guaranteeing human happiness & there4 the
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Replying to @IonaItalia @HPluckrose
I don't think we have sufficient evidence to make this claim. How do you know human rights r best means of guaranteeing human "happiness"?
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Replying to @egonotis @IonaItalia
You think humans can be happier without rights?
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Replying to @HPluckrose @IonaItalia
I don't think focusing on rights is conducive to living a purposeful / meaningful life.
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Replying to @egonotis @IonaItalia
Only a minority of people make human rights their life's meaning. They just enable people to pick their purpose & meaning.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @IonaItalia
I would say meaning is found in overcoming obstacles and finding a way to move forward in the struggle of existence.
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Replying to @egonotis @IonaItalia
OK. Doesn't having the right to be free, choose your own job, own property, vote, access education etc help with that?
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Replying to @HPluckrose @IonaItalia
Maybe, but I don't think that if in deprivation the best way to live life is to make it about demanding those rights for oneself.
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Replying to @egonotis @IonaItalia
It might or might not be. Some people could be happier just living with it especially if violence is likely to result from not doing so.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @IonaItalia
Depends how much you want to do the things you can't do & how central they are to your happiness.
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If I were forced to marry at 12 & have child after child & never study or write, it would certainly be worth my while to fight this.
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