Question: What is your question?
Jim Lehrer: When something goes wrong, who do you blame automatically? Do you ever feel you’re responsible for your own mistakes?
The most important question I would ask any individual would be, Do you think you’re important? Do you see yourself as an individual? Do you see yourself as a member of a pressure group? As a member of a political party? As a member of a church, of a faith?
Do you see yourself in family terms, as a parent, a child, an uncle, a lover in personal terms? How do you see yourself?
Do you see yourself as an instrument of good? Do you feel like you’re a person that’s always on the defense – that people are out to get you? Or are you on the offense? You’re active, making your own world, doing your own things. Do you feel that there are certain things that others owe you? Family may owe you? A guy next door may owe you? The government may owe you? Do you feel there are things that you owe others?
Recorded: July 4, 2007.
Discuss
Amanda Masters on January 15, 2008, 9:34 PM
I believe that Human rights come from the formation of empathy in humans.
Amanda Masters on January 16, 2008, 2:34 AM
I believe that Human rights come from the formation of empathy in humans.
johan hendrick on January 17, 2008, 12:42 AM
gen 1;25-28
gen 2;15-18
human rights come from gods devine right as creator and us all being enjoined living heirs and image of our creator [suns of gods light]that ye do to the least ye do to him.rev 21;3-7 ,21-26 ,thus entitled to equal share of the fruits from the tree of life.
rev 22;11 ,17,18,19,20 ,that we do to the least we do to him
but one gives life [god]
let him who has ears hear
let him who has eyes see
let them know who kill , the killing time is over ,be as one for the only one , god whoi lives ever in the present [living] moment
live time all the time
''When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,
and to assume, among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them,
a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness''
johan hendrick on January 17, 2008, 5:42 AM
gen 1;25-28
gen 2;15-18
human rights come from gods devine right as creator and us all being enjoined living heirs and image of our creator [suns of gods light]that ye do to the least ye do to him.rev 21;3-7 ,21-26 ,thus entitled to equal share of the fruits from the tree of life.
rev 22;11 ,17,18,19,20 ,that we do to the least we do to him
but one gives life [god]
let him who has ears hear
let him who has eyes see
let them know who kill , the killing time is over ,be as one for the only one , god whoi lives ever in the present [living] moment
live time all the time
‘’When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,
and to assume, among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them,
a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness’’
David Fishman on January 22, 2008, 12:30 PM
Human rights are a construct of the industrialized nations, which, while well intentioned, simply criticize and marginalize developing nations. They are irrelevant wherever providing enough food is a serious concern. This becomes all the more ironic when America violates them.
David Fishman on January 22, 2008, 5:30 PM
Human rights are a construct of the industrialized nations, which, while well intentioned, simply criticize and marginalize developing nations. They are irrelevant wherever providing enough food is a serious concern. This becomes all the more ironic when America violates them.
vincent serna on January 28, 2008, 7:29 PM
one word, God
baraca yo-bama on February 1, 2008, 5:29 PM
Humanity rest's on the individual. Rights are fought for and won, individualy: not collectivly. There are no basic human rights. Does a fetus have a basic human right?
baraca yo-bama on February 1, 2008, 10:29 PM
Humanity rest’s on the individual. Rights are fought for and won, individualy: not collectivly. There are no basic human rights. Does a fetus have a basic human right?
Edward C on February 28, 2008, 1:40 PM
Unless you have ugly wrinkles and you've published a book your opinions don't really matter
I'm kidding ;-)
Edward C on February 28, 2008, 6:40 PM
Unless you have ugly wrinkles and you’ve published a book your opinions don’t really matter
I’m kidding ;-)
Ossian Sweet on December 29, 2008, 1:00 PM
“They’re young and they have no jobs, so that’s a human rights issue…”
Will we never learn.
Make a job a human right and before long everyone will be employed by the government, and we’ll have grinding poverty in which people will only pretend to work and governments will only pretend to pay them.
Make food a human right and before long you’ll have famine and death.
Human rights is not about jobs, or food, or equality of result – it’s about freedoms (speech, thought, assembly, religion), assurances that individuals are treated fairly and equally under the law, and protections from cruel punishments.
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