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by aa-jv 11 days ago
A better awareness of human rights would go a long way to solving the conditions which make surveillance capitalism profitable.

Folks only accept these heinous abrogations of their human rights because they don't understand human rights.
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crawfordcomeaux 11 days ago
"Human rights" is a binary abstraction over nonbinary human needs (needs aren't binary because sometimes you need some amount of water and sometimes you don't need any...but you may be fully hydrated while needing to clean a wound; that's just one example). Being stuck in binary thinking means being stuck in a mental model that can never accurately portray the world, despite rampant evidence the model doesn't work. Being stuck in a system founded on binary thinking is being stuck in a system of stupidity.

We focus on "human rights" because we've been propagandized into myths while never taking full responsibility for our own selves in it.

This is why humanity lives in a mythocracy, as Sun Ra called it. We are currently collectively governed by myths of money, debt, ownership, life, death, rights, wrongs, Earth, patriarchy, egos, liberty, and more. Until humans start collectively learning to craft/choose/embody myths for centering the conditions that sustain life and relating to all things as kin, we'll continue in the current direction.

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aa-jv 10 days ago
I care not one iota for the opinion of someone who degrades human rights, which are universal and apply to you - and me - equally, whether you agree or not.
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crawfordcomeaux 9 days ago
It's interesting to care so little about human needs and rights you won't critically think about either in this context.

Rights matter because they're a concept that people enforce with violence, such as refusing to critically engage in things marginalized people say are issues, like how rights are really just privileges given to us by governments.

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aa-jv 5 days ago
No, rights matter because they are universally agreed upon by all nations who are signatories to the UDHR and they specifically do not depend on government.

I'm not surprised this point isn't obvious to you, given your position that "violence is necessary".

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