After my last article, and the discussion going on over at the link, I've been thinking a lot about the rights of a child, or a fetus as the case may be.

The phrase in the UN Declaration of Human Rights is “All human beings are born free and equal,” a modern rephrasing of the US Declaration of Independence’s “All men are created equal.” But what does the phrase “everyone” or “all human beings” entail? Does it really mean everyone? Immanuel Wallerstein points out the problems with being so absolute:

“… It is almost universally agreed that an infant does not have these rights,...

This is madami of a rant than a well-thought out article, but since this here is called "soap-box", I am going to use it.


I'm currently Pagsulat my paper for my Human Rights class. Sometimes I come upon artikulo that are so messed up...

I can understand artikulo that argue for example for economic interests against human rights. I do not agree with those, but at least they have often an argumentation that makes sense.

But the artikulo I just read... it was actually published in a booklet sa pamamagitan ng Amnesty International. I have no idea why they put that in there. Maybe to ipakita how ridiculous some argumentations...