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WhoWee said:My bold. Given the context of your post citing equivocation, can you please explain the specific meaning of "unnecessary pain" - what is "necessary pain"?
Necessary = unavoidable pain inflicted in order to remove a tumor or other medical reasons. Or pain administered via incarceration as a negative sanction in response to antisocial behavior.
Unnecessary = avoidable pain as in flaying someone alive prior to capital punishment. Or extraction of teeth without administering novacain in order to economize a little.
Of course "necessary" and "unnecessary" can also be understood from a totally subjective angle. But that requires that we ignore the human condition which imposes duties upon which the principles of our USA Bill of Rights are founded. Ignoring the human condition then leads to justification of anarchy both at the international and personal levels. In short it engenders or encourages amorality since it ignores an ultimate wrong or ultimate right. Under that modus operandi any progrom involving genocide becomes subjectively justifiable. That's why the United Nations has formally defined what human rights are-in order to avoid the evil which moral subjectivity inevitably generates.
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On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears in the following pages. Following this historic act the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and "to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories."
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml
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