Envar har rätt att allestädes erkännas som person i lagens mening. – FN:s deklaration om de mänskliga rättigheterna
Does every human being have the right to be counted as person and always have the same rights as everybody else? This is something that we as women have fought for for a long time and it all started during the French Revolution when they said that all human beings have the same rights and when the women heard about it they started to require that they should be able to vote and do things that the men have the right to do. However it wasn’t as easy as it may seem like, because the government hadn’t thought about this when they made the law and then 1798 they took the decision that women didn’t counted as a person. It wasn’t until 1948 all people counted as a person and that was when they wrote this quote you can find in the heading; “Envar har rätt att allestädes erkännas som person i lagens mening” which is in the United Nations declaration about human rights.
I think that we can associate this today about which we think for example should have the right to vote. All people say that it is bad that the women didn’t had the right to vote for a long time when the men could do it, but today we still are mad and think that some people who can vote shouldn’t have the right to do it. For example in some states in the US they think, or I don’t think, that a mass murderer should have the right to help deciding laws that concern criminality. So why do we give them right to vote, and thereby influence the making of laws, when it took so long time for the women to get the right to vote? Or what do you think?
// Alexandra
Very interesting article Alexandra!
Of course I think that women have the right to vote, just as men do.
But when it comes to lawbreakers, I think it depends on what crime the person has commited... If he/she has been to jail for a long time because he/she did something very very bad, for example massacre maybe that person shouldn`t be allowed to vote. But if it is a person who was caught because pilfering he/she should still be allowed to vote I think.
But on the other hand, a person can be thrown inte jail and still be innocent, so is it then right to take away his/her right to vote?
Thanks for your comment Hanna!
I really understand your thought and I agree, I mean that I don't think that people who have done something really bad like massacre should have the right to vote as a part of punishment, but not those who haven't done anything that bad.
Also that about that you may be send to jail and be innocent, I think that the police have the responsibility to be really sure that they are sending the right person to jail.
I hope you got answers to your questions! Thanks again for you comment! :)
Lovely article, Alexandra!
I also think that women should have the right to vote, and the right to do all of the things which men also does.
However, on the issue about who should be allowed to vote or not, I don't think banning criminals of voting is a good idea. First of all, like previously mentioned, they may be innocent. Secondly, which crimes could you then be able to commit and still be able to vote? Would you be allowed to vote if you'd committed murder, but not mass murder? Would speaking up against the government remove your right to vote?
If you would select who would be allowed to vote in a democracy, it's no longer a democracy. A democracy where, e.g., only middle-aged men who support the government are allowed to vote isn't really that much of a democracy, is it?
Really interesting thoughts Lia! I agree that it would be problems if we were about to select who are allowed to vote in a democracy or not. If we should ban some peolpe from voting, who would have the right to do that? If the government had that responsibility we wouldn't dare to say what we think in the way we are doing now.
So when I think about your question Alexandra, I think that everybody has the right to vote, even if you are a criminal.
Interesting and good thoughts Lia!
Before I read your comment I was just going to write something similar to Hanna's comment, that those who has committed really bad crimes, their right to vote should be taken away. But your comment changed my mind.
I now agree with what you said that everybody should have the right to vote, because otherwise I think that it would be some difficulties in some countries deciding who should have the right to vote or not. About criminals voting about laws concerning criminality, I hope that it's more people voting who are not criminal than those who are!
I liked this article. It was juste enough when they made the law that a woman did not count as a person. If it still was like that today I woulde dress my self as a boy and then change the law. I do agree with you. every person shoulde have there rights to do the same things.
