It is absurd to calculate human rights according to a cost-benefit analysis
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| Author(s) | Ronald Dworkin |
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| Source | The Guardian |
| Date | May 24, 2006 |
| URL | http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1781508,00.html |
| Quote | "It is one of Britain's most honoured traditions to accept the marginally increased risk as the price of respect for individual human dignity. That is what self-respect requires. It is dangerous gibberish to say that the public has a right to as much security as it can have; no one has a right to security purchased through injustice."
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This item argues against the position Act should be repealed on the topic Human Rights Act 1998.
This item refers to the previous opinion item Basic freedoms are being lost in the human rights circus.
