What is Human Rights

Any person who is enlightened in any grade has a good idea about what rights are these and agree with their existence in theory. But why the practice is so problematic ?

The problem begins with an imbroglio about your application, because when one doesn’t know how something works, false expectations are created. The common sense confronts human rights response to crime victims, as if your representants were silent.

Why “nobody” cares when a citizen is violated bu a bandit ? The answer is simple: its not a human rights problem. Not in strict sense. This is a law issue [period]. The State authorities should cope with this violation and fullfil their duty of population protection and coercion of criminals.

Is up to the State to legislate and apply the lae to protect the individuals from toher individuals. But who protects the individual from the State? The power difference between them is abyssal. Human history is full of slaughter, war, domination, genocide, purge, segregation and other horrible catastrophes. The State appears as protagonists in many episodes os this kind.

So it becomes clear that this is the real matter of Human Rights. In one hand each State legitimate and impose your domestic law, on the other hand the qualificator “Human” pull out this group of rights from the State and universilize them. We are individuals before citizens.

It is necessary understand the Rule of Law as an institution of unestimate value that protect our guarantees, but doesn’t work with absolute terms — i.e something that fully exists or no — but works through continuated processes. Each rupture is a step in direction to barbarism. Although we are far from complete chaos, there much tragedies in the way, so we can’t allow ourselves to turn a blind eye.

So its not about feel pity for the thug. Its about watch and care for the processes necessaries to a civilized society.