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By: moira macdonald

Usually your posts are far more crisp in their reasoning and are better researched than this. Why replicate the now disputed meme about the tragedy of the commons? See the work of Elinor Ostrom,...

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By: ObiterJ

“The constraints that human rights instruments place on states’ behaviour are no longer being seen by individuals as a welcome brake on governmental power; …..” ust which individuals are truly willing...

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By: Alasdair Henderson

Am I the only one who thinks there is an objective morality underpinning the idea of human rights, not just self-interest (collective or individual)?

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By: J Nately

The article signally fails to remark that for the majority of any society human rights and civil liberties will be something that stops the state acting in their interests. For example, it is in most...

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