It can be! Doesn't have to be.
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Replying to @fronxer
When its lack of knowledge, this is a completely different failing. I just realised I'd failed due to ignorance. 1/2
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Replying to @HPluckrose @fronxer
I just found out that caste discrimination happens commonly here.I hadn't advocated protection from it coz I didn't know it existed
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Replying to @HPluckrose
There is knowledge of existence of a situation and knowledge that enables you to comprehend a situation. I had the latter in mind.
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Replying to @fronxer
I think the knowledge that counts there is knowledge of principles rather than culture.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Even those principles depend on language and concepts that label/explain/structure the physical/social world.The mapping can be non-obvious.
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Replying to @fronxer
I don't know what that means. Either you think human rights abuses are wrong wherever they happen or you don't.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
It depends on definitions for: "human" (or maybe/also: "person"?) and "human rights" (extensional definition, i.e. a concrete set)
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Replying to @fronxer @HPluckrose
For example, if a society has no notion of 'property', it's hard to fight for a right to access to it.
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Replying to @fronxer
Yes, good point. In that case, no-one at all wld be demanding rights to own property & no need to support that right.
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In the same way, we wouldn't need to say women should be able to vote in a culture that wasn't a democracy & no-one voted.
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