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Being Sure of Each Other - An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms (Hardcover)
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Being Sure of Each Other - An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms (Hardcover)
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We are deeply social creatures. Our core social needs-for
meaningful social inclusion-are more important than our civil and
political needs and our economic welfare needs, and we won't secure
those other things if our core social needs go unmet. Our core
social needs ground a human right against social deprivation as
well as a human right to have the resources to sustain other
people. Kimberley Brownlee defends this fundamental but largely
neglected human right; having defined social deprivation as a
persistent lack of minimally adequate access to decent human
contact, she then discusses situations such as solitary confinement
and incidental isolation. Fleshing out what it means to belong,
Brownlee considers why loneliness and weak social connections are
not just moral tragedies, but often injustices, and argues that we
endure social contribution injustice when we are denied the means
to sustain others. Our core social needs can clash with our
interests in interactive and associative freedom, and when they do,
social needs take priority. We have a duty to ensure that everyone
has the opportunity to satisfy their social needs. As Brownlee
asserts, we violate this duty if we classify some people as
inescapably socially threatening, either through using reductive,
essentialist language that reduces people to certain acts or
traits-'criminal', 'rapist', 'paedophile', 'foreigner'-or in the
ways we physically segregate such people and fail to help people to
reintegrate after segregation.
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