Sometimes The Lack Of Substantive Freedoms Relates

Poverty Is The Deprivation Of Opportunity.

It’s Very Easy To Capture Pictures Of Jubilant People In The Street After The Nuclear Bomb. But There Were No Pictures Of Morose People Sitting In Their Kitchens And Living Rooms.

The Notion Of Human Right Builds On Our Shared Humanity. These Rights Are Not Derived From The Citizenship Of Any Country, Or The Membership Of Any Nation, But Are Presumed To Be Claims Or Entitlements Of Every Human Being. They Differ, Therefore, From Constitutionally Created Rights Guaranteed For Specific People.

Any Classification According To A Singular Identity Polarizes People In A Particular Way, But If We Take Note Of The Fact That We Have Many Different Identities - Related Not Just To Religion But Also To Language, Occupation And Business, Politics, Class And Poverty, And Many Others - We Can See That The Polarization Of One Can Be Resisted By A Fuller Picture. So Knowledge And Understanding Are Extremely Important To Fight Against Singular Polarization.

If The Knowledge Of Torture Of Others Makes You Sick, It Is A Case Of Sympathy... It Can Be Argued That Behaviour Based On Sympathy Is In An Important Sense Egoistic, For One Is Oneself Pleased At Others' Pleasure And Pained At Others' Pain, And The Pursuit Of One's Own Utility May Thus Be Helped By Sympathetic Action.