I Think It's Important To Live With

War Begets War. It Produces Outraged And Humiliated And Furious People. That Is Almost Invariably The Case.

Whether Or Not We Continue To Enforce A Universal Conception Of Human Rights At Moments Of Outrage And Incomprehension, Precisely When We Think That Others Have Taken Themselves Out Of The Human Community As We Know It, Is A Test Of Our Very Humanity.

Let's Face It. We're Undone By Each Other. And If We're Not, We're Missing Something.

It Is True That Non-governmental Organisations Working Within Strong Human Rights Frameworks Are Now Confounded By Securitarian Forms Of Logic And Power That Extend The Paternalistic Bias Of Their Work In New Ways.

Maybe One Of The Jobs Of Theory Or Philosophy Is To Elevate Principles That Seem Impossible, Or That Have The Status Of The Impossible, To Stand By Them And Will Them, Even When It Looks Highly Unlikely That They'll Ever Be Realised. But That's Ok, It's A Service.