Universal Human Rights

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Universal Human Rights

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Dec 15, 2016

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Michael Ignatieff says that alluding to abstract principles around ‘human rights’ is not nearly as effective in persuading people to be generous towards strangers as appealing to their instincts of decency and hospitality.

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Dec 15, 2016

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