Showing posts with label Dignity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dignity. Show all posts

Saturday, 29 March 2014

Guilt-tripping, Rights and Oppression

Person A: "There are no such things as rights."
Person B: "What about discrimination against [demographic group of Person A]?"

Person B above has engaged in guilt-tripping, to make Person A feel guilty. This is the evil technique liberalists like Person B use, to push forward liberalism. Rights and oppression come together. Rights are a self-perceived entitlement to have and do as one chooses, leading to bullying.

If you talk to me about rights, don't you DARE use guilt-tripping. There is no such thing as rights, only obligations to be kind to others and be righteous.

Wednesday, 13 November 2013

Dignity Does not confer Individual Rights

Especially these days, one cannot be sure whether one is oppressed or not. There is not because oppression is a relative concept. It is indeed not, but people treat it as though it was relative when it concerns their enemies, but treat it as though it was absolutist when it concerns their own or their allies. Oppression is to strip away the dignity of others. This dignity comes from being created equal to all others and from this alone. Dignity is not granted by government, society, family, culture or any other human institution. It is objective. Rights, however, do not arise from dignity. Rather, obligations based on a categorical imperative come from this dignity. Everyone must follow the categorical imperative to ensure it is not broken.