Comments on: Justice in a Framework of Injustice? http://www.abengnews.com/2009/11/02/justice-in-a-framework-of-injustice/ Caribbean features, views and analysis Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:59:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mello Ayo http://www.abengnews.com/2009/11/02/justice-in-a-framework-of-injustice/comment-page-1/#comment-487 Mello Ayo Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:03:06 +0000 http://www.abengnews.com/?p=2045#comment-487 Or to rephrase your bottom line question: Can human rights be pursued or achieved by committing human wrongs? It seems that the concept of human rights, while laudable, has become devalued through overuse and abuse by opportunistic forces practicing realpolitik. It is evident from some of the instances you cited that the cloak of human rights has been used by sanctimonious opportunists for selfish ends, for practical considerations of power and expediency rather than as an ideal having universal application. Until the Machiavellian tendency to use the cause of human rights duplicitously and conveniently is abandoned in favour of a more principled and universal approach turmoil, as you say, will prevail and peace will remain illusive. Thank you for your thoughtful and provocative essay. Or to rephrase your bottom line question: Can human rights be pursued or achieved by committing human wrongs? It seems that the concept of human rights, while laudable, has become devalued through overuse and abuse by opportunistic forces practicing realpolitik. It is evident from some of the instances you cited that the cloak of human rights has been used by sanctimonious opportunists for selfish ends, for practical considerations of power and expediency rather than as an ideal having universal application. Until the Machiavellian tendency to use the cause of human rights duplicitously and conveniently is abandoned in favour of a more principled and universal approach turmoil, as you say, will prevail and peace will remain illusive.

Thank you for your thoughtful and provocative essay.

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