Human Rights...Who Deserves It?

I think everyone deserve rights. But with rights, there is responsibilities, and if you are not responsible, there is the law. If you're not responsible for your own behavior, you rights may be lesser, or it might be taken away from you.

To me, "human rights," as a complete ideologicalesque concept, is more of a way of saying "we can be better than you and we're going to prove it," and it often backfires by allowing for atrocity to happen simply so one can take the higher position of morality. To that end, I always ask what it's worth to people to do that - to believe in treating everyone "humanely" (realize the definition is relative), regardless of how wrong/bad/evil they are. What's it worth to take harsh interrogation off the table? What's it worth to decide to treat a BAD PERSON with kindness and basically enable them to hurt someone else? Does it help one sleep better at night? Does it send a positive image to the rest of the world that, despite how many times your face is spat in, you will not throw a punch? What's it worth? I don't think it makes a better society. I see the exact opposite. I guess, in the end, some people would rather feel good with a sense of clean hands than to act harshly when warranted. Their conscience reconciles things differently than mine, for example, and living on high ground is the great cleanser. For me, well, I'm more of an eye-for-eye kinda guy, and I believe some people deserve to be treated as they treat others. To this case in particular, the "humane" thing is to let him face justice and not live on the lam.

Skysuccess, I do not think this case has to do with huiman rights: The case appears to be a case of US laws and US legal procedures.

I felt that the asylum seeker cannot appeal to 'human right' to stay in the UK. Human right are not like any other kind of right. It's rather meant for some basic right as human being. " By virtue of belonging to human species I want to continue to stay in the UK..." to me this argument sounds nonsense. I also think if a man does or will not conform his ways to the legal demand of any country he should be put to jail, provided the laws are not framed arbitrarily but rather based on the requirement of the people specially set up by democratic institutions.

This man seams very bad. It is terrible to drive without in insurance and a valid driving license. He killed a 12 year old girl with his dangerous driving. He is a Iraqi asylum seeker so he should go to jail and then go back to his home country: Iraq. If the man that behaved well they would have been able to keep him. The people that need human rights and normal asylum seekers. Also the starving people in countries that need aid.

As far as basic human rights, I don't think that there is anyone alive that doesn't have a right to them. However, where there are people that have committed crimes, I think that there are some of the more extended rights that we think of as human rights that should be taken away from a person. I think that the fact that felons aren't allowed the right to vote is a good example of a human right that can be taken away from a person when they've committed a crime.