Depotism or poverty? Which is worse?

Depotism or poverty? Which is worse?

Kia ora boys and girls, it's Brumby's assignment time, & for once in my life I haven't decided on the answer before I begin it!

The question is "what is the most pressing challenge for human rights; poverty or despotism? A bloody interesting question, and almost philisophical in terms of it being like the chicken and the egg...

Feel free to post some thoughts, and if I use any of your material i'll ask your permission first and cite you!

Also please note i'm not doing this so you guys can do my work for me, more to get a much wider perspective because you lot are rather smart

Well, a Despot may be benevolent and therefore could allow lots of human rights except possibly

• Article 21.1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "Everyone has the right to take part in the government of their country, directly or through freely chosen representatives,"
  
• Article 21.3: "The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures,"
  
• and article 7:"All are equal before the law..."

Basically stopping people being represented in the running of the state, and the Despot would be above the law.

All fine and dandy in theory

You can get lots of info from Dev-Zone on poverty and Human Rights issues

http://www.dev-zone.org/
Bullion2009-09-30 14:22:31

It boils down to one question: would you rather live in poverty in a free society, or in relative affluence in a dictatorship?

Poverty

a lot of it caused by despotism

not very helpful

Yes

Feel like a Chelski joke needed somewhere here. (Toon would qualify for poverty).

More $$$ = better team. Glorious Leader FC vs. Hobos United


el grapadura2009-09-30 22:00:10

 

They're always away

The irony is that there actually is a homelss world cup

what is the world coming too.

just for my 5cents worth - i don't donate money to people like Worldvision etc.. because i don't believe the money (all of it) gets to those in need. i always see people who work in Worldvision driving brand new Mercs,BMW's etc...

i also believe the USA government was involved in 9/11.

(there is strong evidence in doco's I've watched)

anyway - carry on........................

WorldVision is very open about the fact that either 20 or 25% of donations go straight to admin costs...which sucks! BUT at least they're open about it.

This reminds me of a Larry David joke on one of the Curb Your Enthusiasm DVD extras:

Good thread. Lots of thoughtful stuff.

Mmmmmm handed it in, rubbish assignment but it got me thinking lots, nice to see the forum still full of life! I've got a 5000 word essay to do over summer so as soon as I confirm what I'm doing it on I'll put it to you  fellas!

...excellent!