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Comment to UU College of Social Justice
Your ideology is wrong. I believe the original and best meaning of justice is the idea that a person gets what he/she deserves. Clearly then, justice applies on an individual basis. Therefore, your idea of "social justice" has no valid meaning.
The phrase "social justice" is actually a socialist liberal slogan that fits in a context of a collective model of the population. Embracing such a model is an individual decision, so if a government pursues it then government becomes a tyranny and we have lots of them in the Western World.
Filed under: Comments to NGO's | June 7th, 2013
Open letter to Int’l Leadership Academy of Ethiopia
Panos,
I read the entire description of the International Leadership Academy at the Idealist site and was very impressed with the scale and depth of your efforts.
Permit me to make two suggestions for your consideration.
1. The large scale use of computers for teaching. Computers can teach by pre-recorded lectures by exceptional teachers, selected educational television programs and by interactive instructional programs. These applications do not require the latest computers because computer advances were mainly to facilitate internet usage and computer gaming with ever more elaborate graphics. Educational computers only need to play DVD's and rather simple (graphically) programs transmitted on an in-school intranet. They do not need to be connected to the internet. I believe that computers that are considered out-dated in North America and Europe could be obtained free in a properly designed collection program. The cost of this and for transportation would be the only costs. Full size classrooms and even school buildings are not necessary, only cubicles for individual instruction. Students can learn at their own pace and students can be of any age. Indeed, this method includes the practicality of teaching mature adults.
2. Include thorough instruction in fundamental rights in your curriculum. Knowledge of and acceptance of the theory of true human rights is a base on which a peaceful, constructive society can be built. There is more explanation of fundamental rights at my web site www.truehumanrights.com I can send a free pdf copy of the book for your evaluation if you choose.
I see from the writeup that you have an international focus. It is clear to me, however, that many countries are going down the wrong avenue on fundamental rights, particularly as they are incorporated in laws and government operations. The Western World, in particular, is stuck in what I call the modern political paradigm. This is the belief that the purpose of government is to design society. In practice, they have repeatedly shown a willingness to ignore any fundamental rights that get in the way. A better vision of human life is a system in which a person's fundamental rights are respected by all others and protected by government while otherwise the person has the maximum practical amount of freedom.
It is encouraging to see a progressive program such as yours.
RSH
Filed under: Comments to NGO's | June 5th, 2013
Comment on Henry Kissinger’s May 21 remarks on a new world order
The only global order that will not include the exploitation of people, neglect of their rights or systemic injustice is an order based on true human rights. These rights were revealed in an analysis of what rights every person (male or female) is born with. They are objective and unassailable- like the principles of mathematics or theoretical science- and can be understood and embraced by any rational person. Government based on these rights can authorize sub-jurisdictions that are formed by people who were brought together by common values, common heritage (e.g., tribes), common religious belief (some already exist) or such other. Throughout, every person's fundamental rights would be protected.
Filed under: Comments on News Stories | May 30th, 2013
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About The Author
Robert Stephen Higgins was born into a coal-mining family in Nova Scotia but grew up mostly in Southern Ontario. In 1964 he graduated from the University of Toronto in Mechanical Engineering and began his engineering career in the aero engine and aircraft fields. This included a period at the Boeing Airplane Company in Seattle as a material stress analyst on the 747 jetliner project. Worried that aircraft design projects were too discontinuous for raising a family he moved to the power industry. Through the 1970’s he was a design and project mechanical engineer on new oil and coal-fired power stations in Canada and the USA. Much higher pay and adventure called to him in taking a project engineering position for the construction of a nuclear power station in Argentina. He remained in the Canadian nuclear power industry as a design engineer until taking early retirement in 1999. Afterwards, he completed two consultant contracts in the nuclear field, the latter taking him to South Africa to manage a mechanical engineering department on a project to design and build a demonstration pebble-bed modular reactor (nuclear) which, unfortunately, was cancelled in 2008.
Robert was not just an engineer, however, but an interested student of the whole human story. History and archaeology were fascinating subjects, but closer to home the direction in which politicians, judges, and others in positions of power were taking society was of more serious concern. A public confrontation with the president of the large company (23,000 employees) for which he worked was a tipping point. Robert suggested that the employment equity program which the president was promoting would discriminate against white males. The president replied that he did not care if it did, he was going to implement it anyway. Reflecting on this interchange afterwards, Robert concluded that employment equity programs were more about designing society than about individual rights.
After retirement, he applied his long experience with objective analysis to discover what human rights really were. His book Human Rights, What Are They Really? was published in late 2008. More writing is ahead amid efforts to advance his own technical projects. “I am not a man of leisure”, says Robert.