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21 votes
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New Zealand parliament to consider Euthanasia/Assisted Dying Bill in conscience vote
5 votes -
What is the human cost to China's economic miracle? | Head to Head
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UAE’s tolerance embraces faiths, runs up against politics
4 votes -
Banner blindness revisited: Users dodge ads on mobile and desktop
7 votes -
Angola expels thousands of Congolese migrants in crackdown on illegal diamond mining
7 votes -
Paper promises: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at seventy
9 votes -
North Sentinel Island: Uncontacted tribes’ ‘right to be left alone’ doesn’t gel with broader human rights
9 votes -
Google shut out privacy and security teams from secret China project
22 votes -
Welcome to the ‘New Turkey': Five years after Gezi park, protesters face new threats of arrest
7 votes -
At 63, I threw away my prized portrait of Robert E. Lee
9 votes -
Around 100 migrant caravan members have been kidnapped by human traffickers, Mexican officials warn
4 votes -
Why we should believe in ghosts
7 votes -
"Like a TripAdvisor for migrant workers”
4 votes -
In Iran, state sanctioned messaging apps are the new hallmark of internet nationalisation
4 votes -
Separated refugee families launch legal action against Australian government at UN
7 votes -
Unprotected: "An acclaimed American charity said it was saving some of the world’s most vulnerable girls from sexual exploitation. But from the very beginning, girls were being raped."
9 votes -
Eritrea: Human rights concerns persist months after peace deals
5 votes -
The love story that upended the Texas prison system
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Why the UFC's 'sportswashing' of Chechnya’s dictator is a problem
10 votes -
Canada’s use of artificial intelligence in immigration could lead to break of human rights
4 votes -
Google China prototype links searches to phone numbers
10 votes -
GCHQ data collection violated human rights, Strasbourg court rules. Spies breached right to privacy in programme revealed by Edward Snowden, judges say
10 votes -
A call for principle-based international agreements to govern law enforcement access to data
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'Affront to human rights': Top UN official slams Australia's offshore detention
8 votes -
Tact filters
9 votes -
Should Grindr users worry about what China will do with their data?
16 votes -
What do you think is the best thing about being human?
I feel that with the hustle of life, we never truly get to appreciate the opportunity that being a human presents. After all, being born at all is a one in a couple hundred million chance.
25 votes -
Prisoners striking in seventeen US states over prison conditions
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In a precedent, the Saudi prosecution calls for the beheading of female human rights defender Israa Al-Ghomgham
19 votes -
It started as a fairly routine tweet from an inoffensive source - Canada's foreign affairs ministry. But in just a few days it escalated into a world-class diplomatic clash.
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UN says it has credible reports that China holds million Uighurs in secret camps
16 votes -
Saudi Arabia orders 16,000 students to leave Canada amid escalating clash
7 votes -
Britain accused of failing to grasp scale, cost of modern slavery
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Writing from Manus prison: a scathing critique of domination and oppression. Behrouz Boochani spent almost five years typing passages of his book into a mobile phone. The result resists classification
9 votes -
Defending land and environmental rights has become an increasingly deadly endeavor
7 votes -
Israel passes controversial 'Jewish nation-state law', stripping Arabs of self-determination right
16 votes -
Speaking on behalf of … In the tapestry of diverse social groups, the loudest and most extreme get heard. To whom should we actually listen?
5 votes -
Two weeks after “ending” US family separation, parents still can’t contact their children
7 votes -
The US withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council leaves ally Australia in an awkward, lonely position
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What defines a perfect human?
My friend and I were talking the other day about how for a perfect society to exist, surely every person within that society must also be perfect, which lead us to discussing what defines a...
My friend and I were talking the other day about how for a perfect society to exist, surely every person within that society must also be perfect, which lead us to discussing what defines a perfect human.
Clearly we live in a imperfect world and therefore it can never be accomplished, but we realised there are multiple ways in which a perfect human could be defined. This included such parameters such as emotional stability, morally perfect, physically perfect (whether or not this is even possible) and a whole array of other parameters that have escaped my memory.
What do you think defines the perfect human, assuming it's even possible in the first place? Should it just be defined by one parameter or a mix, and would some parameters be valued higher over others? For example, is a perfect moral compass more valued over physical perfection? I would love to hear your guys take on the question.
EDIT: By perfect I mean functioning within a society perfectly.
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New Toronto Declaration calls on algorithms to respect human rights
8 votes