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My Experience!

For me Pols 470 was a great experience for many reasons. First, I care a lot about Human Rights like I said 3 weeks a go. I liked the readings in some way which is related and goes in order. In fact, somehow for me it is long and it takes me long time but I enjoyed it. The class time is just great for me. It is only 3 weeks but seriously I learned a lot. In addition the most I like is that I gained the information in English which is very beneficial for me and I learned from different countries. I liked when we had in the first class the refresh memory about HR in general. I also liked learning about the HR in the concept of the old philosophers. finally about Dr. Kohen. I appreciate every single second he spent standing up for 2 hours and 50 minutes to teach us a very beneficial things. I liked the way he made us work in blogs in Tumbler, and Twitter to communicate with each other. I also loved having lunch and conversation at the union. I see it very great idea made us know each other more. Overall, I really loved this class so much and definitely I learned a lot. The only thing that I liked less is having the class for 3 weeks only.       

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Truth and Justice:“False Confession”

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Women In Saudi Arabia

      I found this article and I loved to choose it because I see it is somehow related to what we talked in class yesterday. Some people think that the Saudi women has no right at all. In fact, that is completely not true. the women In saudi Arabia are just like queens. To illustrate, it is true that the women in Saudi Arabia dont drive and the reason why is first we grew up with this that the women dont drive. They dont need to drive because almost in every single house there is a special driver who can take them wherever and whenever they want. Also, this driver is well treated. there is an apartment for him, 3 meals daily, and salary every month. In addition, we treat this driver as one member of the family. more reasons why they dont drive is because they dont have the ability to drive a car. They didnt learn that. also, they are happy almost all of them actually dont want to drive. They are very happy having someone take them anywhere and anytime. In the article, Women in Saudi Arabia now are allowed to vote and run for office. women also can have a job. There are teachers, lawyers, engineer, bosses of companies, and even a lot of them who have their own companies. Also, the husbands in Saudi Arabia give his wife salary every month even if they have jobs. The men also are responsible to buy them whatever their wives need even if they have money. Women are well treated and appreciated in the community of Saudi Arabia. It is really true that they are just like Queens.          

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/14/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-women-elections.html?_r=0

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Can We Help?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/us/americas-aging-homeless-old-and-on-the-street.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

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Objectivism vs Subjectivism

I am a person who believe in emotions. Feeling is something very amazing. it makes me see every single thing around me is beautiful. Human rights need the people who feel about others, care about others. That is why it called rights. it is called right so i can believe that there has to be justice in my heart in everything in my life. I am subjectivist for sure and that is why I forgive, love, help, etc. So, if there is justice in my heart to ward others, it means I feel and care about them because of the emotions that i carry in my heart. 

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A Moral History of The 20th Century

       Like religion, morality is becoming less of a powerful element in the modern times. We saw many wars, regional or global. We saw some governments' unfair practices to trample the most basic of human rights. Every day, the "moral high ground" that people have constantly regarded for many centuries faces trade-offs, adjusting more into the environment than restraining itself to dogma. In this essay, we argue that morality, and moral authority for that matter, stands against the will of time and evolution. We discuss in this analysis the value of man's primal needs (biology) and his decisions to achieve them (economics). 

       Moral authority by the start of the twentieth century was revered as religion was in earlier centuries. Kant once wrote: "the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me" (1). This embodies the importance of morality in society as a whole. But also, like religion, it is on the road to unimportance. Nietzsche's analogy of religion's demise, of God's death and that religion itself is "no longer an intellectual option" is a serious warning to morality's failing authority (11). Religion began as an intellectual pursuit to a life based on God's words and Christ's teachings. But as history would tell, even the Jews and the Christians were never really moral. The Jewish slave morality is one example of Nietzsche's religious basis for morality, hence, his fear of morality dying out too (12).

        Humanity is still driven by its biological preponderance. It has been like this for millions of years, and will forever be so. As the biological nature rules, man exploits his limited abilities to adapt to the natural environment. And with such process, it learned, again naturally, to make decisions, economic decisions, as we may consider, in order to effectively and efficiently survive. Religion served as a book of rules to lead man to his best results. So is morality, largely unwritten, but equally effective. But like any rules, say, government laws and regulations, they adapt to social and environmental changes, being shaped by the dynamics of being amended or repealed. Laws existed on the basis of politics and order. Religious authority is based on beliefs, and moral authority, through philosophy that was in itself influenced by religion (this proves Nietzsche's religious basis for morality). Man, as he seeks to survive, is hardened and made tougher by the will of nature to make better decisions. The "philosophers of the future" of Nietzsche would suggest the same as "hardness" and "cruelty" must define the self-creation and self-mastery (16). In effect, man is still driven by self-interest (19). Self-interest that emanates from his biological self. One would almost always secure his interest first before others' as a man of decisions. The will to survive is an inherent need that even Darwin and Maslow perpetually honored. Self-interest can also translate to better understanding of a wider "self-interest", i.e. societal interest, as people work in groups, paving one to be sensitive to one's self-interest model. Self-interest itself can restrain ruthlessness and mutual harm (22). So what is the need for a moral guideline when there is a more natural human response for which to wield proper behavior? 

       Socrates would counter that much of what we get be gained through immorality and that immorality will not lead to true happiness (27). But Socrates said that "inner conflict is a threat to happiness" (27). Is a life constrained by religion and moral authority a life without conflict? For every decision man makes, questions and thinking are unavoidable. Moral imagination would say the same (409). They are what Socrates meant as "self-knowledge" (27). But we have argued that a adapting to our natural environment leads to a higher and better understanding of man's biological and economic essence. And that is self-knowledge. Self-knowledge that is inherently natural, finding what is right and wrong on its own, what is more effective and efficient for survival. 

       Moral law is fading as a result of a weak foundation (405). Like religion, it is on a verge of losing its grip on humanity, creatures who naturally adapt, something that both religion and morality are not.

Glover, Jonathan, A Moral History of The 20th Century, selections.

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The Syrian Suffer!

It is so sad seeing what is happening to Syria. The video shows how the Syrian People suffer. In the attached link, there is a video shows how they live in pain. The Airstrike cased a massive mass. The Syrian camp became a fire and 25 innocent people died. I know that the Arab people have very warm blood or on the other hand extremely furious when there is injustice. To explain more, they will never ever give up fighting President Bashar Alassad. They just want him to die. They lost their family, friends, mothers, fathers, and children. Normally, they easily will say, “We don’t care anymore and all what we want is to take him and kill him by our hand just as what happen with Muammar Alghdaffi to his people. When he gets killed by the Syrian, their injuries will heal.

http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/100000004388097/aftermath-of-airstrike-in-syria.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FHuman%20Rights%20and%20Human%20Rights%20Violations&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=25&pgtype=collection

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Patricia Derian Dies At 86

The Diplomat Patricia Derian died last Friday May 20, 2016. Patricia Derian made the human rights as A priority thing in this life. She was nurse at a time. However, Patricia Derian realize that she had some knowledge about diplomatic protocols. Until she became the United States civil rights and human rights activist. In addition to that, so many of the people so that on her. They see that she is well-meaning but unsophisticated. in fact there was a huge number of lives been save because of her work. that hard work became a very big success during the time of Argentina’s “Dirty War”. one of the thing that she said about the document provided by the National Security Archive was, “You and I both know that as we speak, people are being tortured in the next floors,” the article as very meaningful so I loved to share it with you. It explains more about a person who was as a great leader with full care of human rights.  

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/21/us/patricia-derian-diplomat-who-made-human-rights-a-priority-dies-at-86.html?_r=1 

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Paine Analytical Essay

Analytical Essay           

          Have you ever asked yourself what is the real meaning of rights? We all agree that rights is what protect us a free people in our country. Not only in the united states, but also in everywhere in the world. However, based on what we see in the world right now does not explain what the rights are. To illustrate more, In Syria there are thousands of people who died. They are innocent Mothers, fathers, and children. Where is the real rights in this kind of killing, stealing, rapes, and kidnaping. This disaster has been exist since 2010.    

           Let us go back decades ago we had too many philosophies . Each one of them has his own believe that can be similar or different from others. There are really true philosophers that I admire and respect. In fact some people sees it crazy of how these philosophers think after reading their book. There are too many of them such as Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, and Burke. However, I would like to talk about Pine in the side of human rights and analyze what is his view and believe in this important subject    

The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine basically states that a politically motivated revolt is allowable or acceptable if the government fails to protect the rights of the population. This is why he was in favor of the French Revolution that started in 1789. Paine said that the interests of the leaders and their people are the same, and that the French Revolution has to be interpreted as something that assaults the tyrannical ideas of the leaders of the French government and not just the king. This is why taking control of Bastille was so important because this signified that tyranny has been defeated already.

Paine believed that human rights essentially come from nature and so they cannot be offered through the Constitution since this would mean that rights can be wiped clean and stripped from the people (Paine 43). If this is the case then rights can then be considered as privileges which is just wrong on the part of Paine. It is just insulting to believe that a Constitution provides rights to the people because it function by providing an opposite impact in that it strips the people of their rights. Rights are naturally part of the existence of people but because of the Constitution these rights are nullified and so only those wealthy and influential in society are able to maximize their rights. The Constitution instead becomes a tool for depriving justice for the people. Thus, it has to be established that the truth is really that people agreed amongst themselves to create a government and they exercised their rights in doing so. For Paine, this is the lone condition wherein governments have the right to emerge and the lone idea that makes it acceptable for them to be here in this world. The main responsibility of the government is to protect the people and their natural rights.

  Work Cited

Paine, Thomas. Rights of Man. London: Wordsworth, 1996. Print

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15 Years In Prison For The Word “Ja”

Patnaree Chankij is a 40 years old mother of a son that faces 15 years in prison. it is obvious that from the title the reason behind this is the only one single word that consist of 2 letter. To illustrate more. Ms. Chankij recieved a private message about “police say insulted Thailand’s monarchy.” Ms. Chankij replayed to the message the word “Ja”. However,  the recipient sees it as “Yeah” believing this word is an insulting insult the long-reigning King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the queen or the crown prince. 

Poonsuk Poonsukcharoen, a lawyer advising Ms. Chankij. stated that the word “Yeah” had not emphasized or means as agreement with it or commented on its content. on the other hand, Mr. Sirawith told his mother’s supporters and the news media that “the police had gone after her to get to him”.“She’s never expressed anything politically,” he said. “She’s never argued or debated with anyone.” he is believing that the junta use his mother as a hostage and it is an act overall. he also believe that this is not an appropriate for a government to do such this thing to the people on this country.    

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/world/asia/thai-activists-mother-faces-prison-term-for-one-word-facebook-reply.html?_r=0

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Why I Take This Class

My major is political science specified in the international relations. Before it is required, I had to many options to choose any other upper level POLS classes. However, I strongly choose this class because I care so much about Human rights. I believe it is very important subject that need to take care of it seriously. Human rights are obvious by the name “rights”, but I really want to go deep into it. in class today I have learned new things that increase my knowledge about human rights. We see killing, torturing, kidnaping, stealing, etc. by taking this class I will learn more and more about human right, I will have more potions to solve all these things against human rights.