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Individual's rights

posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 08:39am on 19/04/2005
This seems like a good idea. I wonder if it will catch on?

Quoting from the site:

Individual-i stands for:



  • Freedom from surveillance
  • Personal privacy
  • Anonymity
  • Equal protection
  • Due process
  • Freedom to read, write, think, speak, associate, and travel
  • The right to make your own choices about sex, reproduction, marriage, and death
  • The right to dissent


the Individual-i
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posted by [identity profile] purpletigron.livejournal.com at 01:31am on 19/04/2005
My only point of disagreement is more of a feeling .. that we don't have to set these principles up in opposition to more communal virtues. IYSWIM.
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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 01:48am on 19/04/2005
I agree. There's a certain Western cult of the individual that rankles, and increasingly so as I learn more as a father. The list of freedoms and rights of the individual have to apply to everyone, and sometimes that means curbing your desire and actions to allow others to exercise those rights too.
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posted by [identity profile] sammywol.livejournal.com at 02:02am on 19/04/2005
Anonymity in what context? I do not see it as a blanket right the way I would class the last five.

DD is a supporter though. Being drawn to the screen by the twin attractions of Dada and Bagpuss icons, she then pointed at the 'i' symbols in turn as 'Dada, Mama, Roro.'
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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 04:16am on 19/04/2005
'Dada, Mama, Roro'. Excellent!

I agree with your point on anonymity. I'm no David Brin (thanks be!) but I do believe that an absolute right to privacy is incompatible with membership in a community. That said, I also believe that it's right to be able to say things publicly without having the government figure out who you are and come in the night to cart you away. There are anonymising relays on the Internet for a reason after all.
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posted by [identity profile] simreeve.livejournal.com at 11:19am on 19/04/2005
All those rights, what about responsibilities?
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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 01:10am on 20/04/2005
Again, I agree. In the West it's easy to get caught with our rights and forget that we have responsibilities too. It's also easy to forget that many rights we take for granted are far from automatic for the majority of people in the world. I don't think it wrong for individuals of all stripes to stand up and say they support basic freedoms such as those outlined above.

I'm not behind each of them 100% however, as I've already said.
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