Revamping Rights for the 21st Century

Gravity FM

English - February 12, 2021 20:00 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
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Expanding the Rights Rubric: Adding Rights and Rights Holders for a Good Society

Discussion with Sushma Raman on The Coming Good Society: Why New Realities Demand New Rights, her book with William F. Schulz. We discuss the need for specific rights to redress the needs of LGBTQIA+ communities and why adding new rights reinforces rather than dilutes traditional human rights. We also discuss the risks posed to our rights by technological advancement, including algorithmic decision-making and CRISPR and how to address these from a rights perspective. Additionally, we discuss the need to view corruption as a human rights violation per se. We also discuss the need to ascribe rights to non-humans, including the environment, AI and a tiered approach to animal rights.

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