I don’t want to talk about “Cry Freedom” as much as I do about my personal viewpoint on law and human rights throughout history and my own life--and I am planning to blog about this same exact thing following the unit’s completion after studying about its role in history and how it has manifested into such a colossal notion in human history and life. I think it will be interesting and incredibly, personally valuable to see the difference which studying this theme will have on me in comparison to my viewpoint after learning more about it--those differences between the original one and the concluding one will be really interesting, I think.
So, I want to start off with talking about how religion and government, our past two units have impacted laws and human rights since personally, I think those are two very large aspects of the concept which are influential to a very high extent. First off, I firmly believe that every human, no matter what race, sex, gender, orientation, location, subjection, background, diseases, abnormalities, etc...everyone is human (no way around that!) so everyone should be subjected to human rights as equally as the next man, yet those rights are defined individually for the most part. It’s entirely individualized--somebody can subject themselves to few rights and be completely fine with it, yet another might subject themselves to thousands of rights and be completely out of line and non-bearable without those specific rights. In this manner, human rights are merely another part of history, as just like the study and acts of history, is subjected to themselves and have many point of views/angles of perspectives which can be viewed upon.
We established the notion that religion is a lens by which people perceive and view the world, and that lens justifies and is the root cause for one’s actions, thoughts, and character, essentially! In this way, it makes sense that religion would go onto effect the human rights of an individual/s throughout history as human rights are subjected to the same extent that history and religious action is. Religion, also, has provoked a set of truths, morals, and codes by which individuals or groups of people abide by and live their lives in accordance to. Religion additionally tells people the morals by which they should live their lives and therefore, it dictates some of the rights and laws that individuals or groups of people should be subjected to and abide by. Not everyone is dedicated to the same religion, and if this notion is accepted, then it goes to say that different religious people are subject to different human rights. That is a notion to which I got the idea that religion and human rights do not have much affiliation (in my eyes) because human rights applies to humans, not religions.
In addition to religion, we also studied government in this year’s class. Now, unlike religion, government has not been used to see the world throughout history, but rather is something to maintain whatever views may exist under the government itself. Although, I think that government has more of an influence on human rights (definitely laws!) than religion does because government is the force which imposes the human rights on people. Whether or not it dictates them is a different story, and completely depends on the type of government which is being considered. Some governments have the human rights which everyone under their rule is subjected to built into their makeup and structure of the government itself--in this case, human rights definitely is effected by/plays a role in government throughout history as they, in addition to laws, are very much defined, determined, and enforced by the governing bodies.
What I’m really trying to get at here as that just like the themes which we have covered so far in history this year, and the concept of history itself, is that (more human rights part than laws, but either way) human rights and laws are completely subjected and individualized to the individual to whom it concerns! The extent by which someone follows or observes/respects a law is entirely variable when talking about a generalized group of people--history, essentially. The degree that human rights are determined, respected, and practiced in any given moment/situation is unpredictable. Religion may enhance and provoke the methods by which one follows a law, or perceives/acts in accord to human rights; government may enforce different laws to different people and execute human rights to the extent they see fit. Regardless, the general concept is that laws and human rights cannot be established or defined through looking at history, but rather can be observed, developed, and changed along with history; but one thing stays the same--law and human rights have been a root cause for many actions and modifications in history. Why? Because no one can ever agree to what they entail and the degree to which they are applied.
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