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The Coming Good Society - Why New Realities Demand New Rights (Hardcover)
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The Coming Good Society - Why New Realities Demand New Rights (Hardcover)
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Two authors with decades of experience promoting human rights argue
that, as the world changes around us, rights hardly imaginable
today will come into being. A rights revolution is under way. Today
the range of nonhuman entities thought to deserve rights is
exploding-not just animals but ecosystems and even robots. Changes
in norms and circumstances require the expansion of rights: What
new rights, for example, are needed if we understand gender to be
nonbinary? Does living in a corrupt state violate our rights? And
emerging technologies demand that we think about old rights in new
ways: When biotechnology is used to change genetic code, whose
rights might be violated? What rights, if any, protect our privacy
from the intrusions of sophisticated surveillance techniques?
Drawing on their vast experience as human rights advocates, William
Schulz and Sushma Raman challenge us to think hard about how rights
evolve with changing circumstances, and what rights will look like
ten, twenty, or fifty years from now. Against those who hold that
rights are static and immutable, Schulz and Raman argue that rights
must adapt to new realities or risk being consigned to irrelevance.
To preserve and promote the good society-one that protects its
members' dignity and fosters an environment in which people will
want to live-we must at times rethink the meanings of familiar
rights and consider the introduction of entirely new rights. Now is
one of those times. The Coming Good Society details the many
frontiers of rights today and the debates surrounding them. Schulz
and Raman equip us with the tools to engage the present and future
of rights so that we understand their importance and know where we
stand.
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