Human Rights, Democracy and Starvation

Running head: PHYLOSOPHY OF SOCIAL LIFE 1
Human Rights, Democracy and Starvation
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PHYLOSOPHY OF SOCIAL LIFE 2
Human Rights, Democracy and Starvation
Human rights include the rights that are inherent to every person regardless of nationality,
sex, race, gender, religion, language or other statuses. They include a right to work and
education, right to life, freedom of expression and opinion, freedom from torture and slavery and
many others. All people are entitled to such rights without discrimination (Donnelly, 2013).
These rights should be universalized across the different cultures of the world since all human
beings are considered to be equal. All human rights are supposed to be universal with no
category that is more universal than the other. In this case, the rights need to protect every person
regardless of any differences in race, ethnicity, background, culture or affiliation. The 1948
declaration of human rights is a milestone document in human rights history. The UDHR
(universal declaration of human rights) document was drafted by different representatives who
had varied cultural and legal backgrounds from different parts of the globe and proclaimed the
general assembly of UN (United Nations) in Paris in 1948, tenth December to act as a common
achievement standard for all nations and all people (Donnelly, & Whelan, 2018). The document
sets out the fundamental rights of people to be protected universally and has since been
translated in to different languages. From the look of things about the document, the rights are
sufficient for human existence and are complete. This means that it would not be necessary to
add or deduct anything from them.
This includes the rights to the whole communities that seem to protect the rights for
groups of people in the community including the ones that are thought to be most marginalized
or discriminated against. The rights for whole communities for instance just involve the rights of
individuals extended to cater for the people who share the same characteristics and are meant to
protect the people in general which means they are also protecting each person as an individual

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(Russell, 2017). The reason is that no community or group of people that should consider itself
more superior to the other regardless of any forms of statuses that describes them. It is hard to
consider the community rights to have more weight than the individual rights. The reason is that
they protect people both individually and as a group meaning that the same way individual rights
are protected, as a person, the same happens when such people who share common
characteristics are together. In this case individual rights are as important as community rights as
they all serve to make life comfortable to the people at all means (Mayer, 2018). The community
rights are meant to protect the rights of such groups of people like the disadvantaged in the
community, or those people who are weak and normally fall victim to social discrimination,
assault, violence, or any form of mistreatment in the community. This shows that community and
individual rights support each other to achieve the purpose of protecting the people in a universal
manner.
Democracy involves a government system by the whole of the population or the various
members eligible of state, which is typically through representatives who have been elected. In
most cases, people exercise democracy through voting. In a democratic country or situation, the
rights of all people are protected and people can exercise freedom to do all things that do not
harm or endanger the lives of fellow people (Ciulla, 2013). Democracy serves as a universal
ideal through which human beings need to thrive. People can live democracy out by being able
to share their views as catered for by the rights of expression and opinion. This means that
democracy allows people to criticize any wrong doing regardless of the people who do it. When
people can go against any wrong doing even when it is being commited by the state government
without being harassed or coerced provided what they say or do falls under the universal law.
Democracy is always a good thing in the society since it can shape the way people live and