RE: Human Rights

siiky

2023/09/14

2023/09/14

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=> gemini://idiomdrottning.org/human-rights

If we assume the human rights argument is correct & necessary as an unshakeable axiom, and that might well be the case, it’s challenging to see sustainable degrowth.

The dissonance is real! It's like we randomly generated a game state but can't move from it according to the rules. Except, we did get here step by step, it's just starting to look like a dead-end -- WASTED.

=> https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Wasted

The well-being of a civilization's individuals should be their right, according to the abilities and resources of the civilization. I believe that. Therefore the (or at least a) goal of a civilization should be the well-being of its individuals. Alas, the purpose of civilization is not well-being but survival. If not of the individual, then of the group. And there's no lower limit to the shit scale... as long as survival is ensured.

=> Arrhenius, Gustaf, Jesper Ryberg, and Torbjörn Tännsjö, "The Repugnant Conclusion", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Nevertheless, I hate the brainless masses of people brainlessly ploughing through their shit lives, and/or being complete waste of human beings. I must admit I often feel like a complete waste of a human being myself -- I'm just contributing to the general worsening of the environment, would be better if I wasn't here, etc, etc -- life is just peachy!

=> § 2021-12-27 Jean Valjean on duty | ../wiki/v.exurb1a.absurdism.gmi | "Gorgias", by Plato

It’s not impossible—people can voluntarily give up what the declaration states is their inalienable property (...)

Not certain what you mean by "property" here, but life is a right, right? and many give up on it, in some way due to the civilization they're in. Some because they don't have a hamster wheel to live on, others because of the hamster wheel itself. As if one reason wasn't enough!

=> § 2021-04-08 David Hume on happiness | § 2023-09-06 "The Fall", by Albert Camus | Societal slavery