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Joint Committee gets it (mainly) wrong on human rights

Gideon Hallett

The spirit of which age?

"...a Bill of Rights “could provide explicit recognition that human rights come with responsibilities and must be exercised in a way that respects the human rights of others”. While this is very politically correct, and probably reflects the spirit of the age very well..."

- provided that 'the age' in question is the nineteenth century; specifically the year 1854.

It's nothing more than a legal restatement of one of the central points of J. S. Mill's 'On Liberty'; that individual A's rights to act do not supercede individual B's rights not to suffer the consequences of A's act without their consent.

Gosh, those pesky politically-correct mid-Victorian liberals...