Human Rights
Statement
Human right is an important basic privilege applied by the constitutional framework of a certain society. This is the foundation of equality wherein it mandates all institutions and individuals to treat all human beings equally. Going through with the discussion, human right is the main subject of discussion in this paper, detailing its relevance to the rights of every person in our society. In addition, it seeks to find out about the consequences and benefits of human rights applied to every person in our society.
Introduction
In the educative practice, the idea of human rights is regarded as a politically dominant way of sustaining the articulate demands on morality in the modern society. This involves sorting out and expressing the demands of justice because the essence of duties and rights is an expressive thought wherein a person should never do to other human being who possesses an equal inherent dignity. Human rights laws being referred to as implied privileges that are included in the constitutional framework of laws in our society. However there are societies who fail to implement this particular fundamental that seeks to protect the dignity of human beings. This is due to a variety of factors that affects laws and other constitutional privileges such as politics, economy, religion, geography, and security issues. Meaning, human rights is always challenged by third parties who have different perspectives towards a specific law.
With regards to the moral justification for human rights, every person has the right to live because humans are born in this world to have their lives respected regardless of their demographical status. Life is an inevitable circumstance wherein one must have to live peacefully without being threatened or harmed. If one committed an immoral act by means of taking away other people’s life, the suspect is morally liable for his or her actions. This is similar with the political justification of human rights because there are existing laws that are enacted under a certain societal constitution. With the help of the constitutional right, human right is a basic privilege that one must have to exercise. This is a freedom that a person must have to maximize for as long as they do not violate other laws that could risk other individual’s safety. If a person, group, or an institution violated the constitution, they are held liable by serving a certain time inside incarceration facilities and pay corresponding penalties depending on the damages applied according to Payne (2008).
Basing on the content of human rights, every person is privileged to exercise their freedom. As part of the constitutional privilege, there are several rights provided by this provision to every human being. Aside from the right to live, exercising our right to be educated is our foundation, which will carve our knowledge and skill to become productive in the future. Expressing our freedom from torture and slavery is modernized substantive rights, preventing a person, group, or organization from any acts of abuse through slavery or torture. The freedom of speech, movement, expression, thought, conscience, and religion are also some of the most important contents that our society provides every human being to raise their privileges for as long as there are no ethical or legal violations that will be applied. Other rights are based on economic, social, and cultural privileges, which enable a person’s identity, background, and activities protected from any forms of abuse as mentioned by Cranston (1994).
As conclusion, it has been implied that human right should be learned by every individual in our society. Learning more about human rights enables a person to fight for their rights against abusive activities applied by other individuals, groups, and organization. Knowing the fundamentals of human rights will benefit a certain individual so that they can have the chance to defend themselves and challenge abusive elements of the society. This is the reason why human rights are thought at school, which allow a person to know what they can do to protect themselves from ethical, legal, and moral threats by the third parties. Since we are given the privilege to waive our right to be educated, this is the time for us to maximize this advantage by learning more about the branches and other fundamentals related to human rights applications.
References
Cranston, Maurice (1994). The Philosophy of Human Rights. New York: Prentice Hall.
Payne, Michael (2008). Henry Shue on Basic Rights. Issue 2, Volume 9. Dayton: Pacific University library.
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