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==Index and Glossary==
==Index and Glossary==
There is an index to the topics dealt with in the economics articles [[Economics/Related Articles|here]], and a glossary of economic terms [[Economics/Glossary|here]].
There is an index to the topics dealt with in the economics articles [[Economics/Related Articles|here]], and a glossary of economic terms [[Economics/Glossary|here]].
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[[User:Nick_Gardner#Methodology|methodology]]
[[User:Nick_Gardner#Methodology|methodology]]


The term human rights is used to refer  to one of two mutually exclusive mental constructs:<br>
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- an ethical construct denoting  entitlements that are deemed to be rightfully inherent in the existence of every human being, and whose rightful existence is deemed to be independent of other considerations; or,<br>
|"''The European Union is something ...
- a social construct denoting  entitlements that are  to be conferred upon individuals by the community and which are to be subject to socially-determined limitations  that include those arising from conflicts of interest with other individuals.<br>
  very precious, not only for us in Europe, but also for the rest of the world. Because the European Union is, in fact, the result of a project for peace that brought together nations emerging from the ruins of the Second World War. It was the European Union that united them in peace around the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, justice, rule of law and respect for human rights.''"
The best-known example of its use as an ethical construct is in the American [[Declaration of Independence]] which took it to be "self-evident" that everyone had "certain inalienable rights". Its use in that sense cannot be put into practical operation because it is definitionally  precluded  from meeting the operational need to resolve conflicts of human rights. (The need to resolve such conflicts would normally require  the entitlement to be conditional upon factors that are no longer inherent in a person's existence,  as a result of which the rights would cease to be absolute or "inalienable".)
 
:Merci Olsson, of Nobel Med, congratulating President Barroso on the award of The Nobel Peace Prize t the European Union, 12 October 2012.
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Index and Glossary

There is an index to the topics dealt with in the economics articles here, and a glossary of economic terms here.

See also the index to the politics articles .

methodology

"The European Union is something ... 
very precious, not only for us in Europe, but also for the rest of the world. Because the European Union is, in fact, the result of a project for peace that brought together nations emerging from the ruins of the Second World War. It was the European Union that united them in peace around the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, justice, rule of law and respect for human rights."
Merci Olsson, of Nobel Med, congratulating President Barroso on the award of The Nobel Peace Prize t the European Union, 12 October 2012.
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