A Utilitarian Approach to Human & Civil Rights is a Recipe for Political Oppression

In this video, I discuss one of the worrying tendencies we have seen over the course of this pandemic, namely the rise of a fundamentally utilitarian attitude toward human rights and liberties, that makes our basic rights hinge on the strategic goals of public actors or their interpretation of collective utility.Show more

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