Rights

Question 1

What are human rights designed to do

Answer 1

To protect everyone from severe political, legal and social abuses

Question 2

What is the irony of the refugee according to Arendt

Answer 2

Often, one has human rights when they’re not needed

because national rights enforce human rights. Only when you’re a member of a polity do you have human rights. In many ways, to be a refugee is to be considered inhuman