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Veritas vos liberabit (The truth shall make you free)

Thursday, December 25, 2014

Ok, agree on human rights but ...

what about human duties?
A thundering silence...yet, in my opinion that is most important.

Each and every person who wants to claim human rights must accept the duty to respect the human rights of others. Failing this duty, should not give a person the right to claim that which that person has denied other(s).

A victim who has suffered a crime committed by a criminal is left worse off than the criminal.
The criminal when jailed enjoys unequalled rights: The best medical attention (nobody wants a criminal to die in jail...), the right to mercy, early pardon, the opportunity to an education, psychological/psychiatric support, free board, clothing and lodging etc.
Who pays for all this? The victim as a member of society.

What does the victim get? If lucky, a short attention. Thereafter? Zilch.

Society has no time nor money for the victim. The victim can consider itself lucky when it is not blamed in the first instance! Such as, the victim was careless, buyer beware, it invited the attack (especially rape victims).

The questions I ask are:
1- Does a person who fails in its duty to respect the human rights of other(s)still have a right to claim human rights?
2- Does society only have a duty towards the criminal?
3- Does society not have a duty towards the victim?
4- Why does no-one talk / mention the rights of the victim?
5- Is it fair towards the victim that only the justice system should own the sole right to decide on the punishment for the criminal?