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Human Rights: The Useless Fiction

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M Winther

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May 26, 2012, 11:44:33 AM5/26/12
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"Human Rights: The Useless Fiction"

"It is impossible to separate the idea of human rights from the political
agendas of those wielding this rhetorical weapon."

by Paul Gottfried

http://takimag.com/article/human_rights_the_useless_fiction_paul_gottfried/print#axzz1vzTHmxNU


M. Winther
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/fram4.htm

Andy Wainwright

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May 26, 2012, 7:26:26 PM5/26/12
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Other than human rights and environmental protection, what is the point
of having law at all?

Ron Peterson

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May 30, 2012, 9:50:14 PM5/30/12
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On May 26, 7:26 pm, Andy Wainwright
<andrewrichardwainwri...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

> Other than human rights and environmental protection, what is the point
> of having law at all?

A society (government) makes laws to protect itself. Rights are
granted to people as a limitation on a society.

Environmental protection is an effort to value the natural resources
to maximize the benefit to society.

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Ron
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