A Declaration Of The Responsibilities Of Present Generation Analysis

Anton du Beats an expert in the Relationships between history, ethics and human rights, argues in his article ‘A Declaration of the Responsibilities of Present Generation towards Past Generations’ that both living and deceased have the same right of dignity and the same right to be respected. As a consequence of these equal rights, living people, have responsibilities toward the dead to ensure their right to dignity and respect. These responsibilities as he suggested are represented in four categories “body and property,” “personality,” “general duties,” and “consequential rights.” Therefore, Antoon further argues that burying the dead in a decent place according to his religious rites, giving him the proper funeral and mourning him as he deserves …show more content…
After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the difference in the politics of mourning became clear. Iraq and Afghanistan’s grief besides the American grief became visible in an international arena. In addition to the world inaction to what is always happening in Palestine from a different kind of atrocities against Palestinians, in full view of the world, which did nothing to. Compared with the world reactions toward what happened in America or Paris. According to this account, Butler raises a question, deserves to be questioning especially in the light of the current violence and human rights violations are happening here in Palestine. “Who count as a human? Whose lives count as lives? And finally, what makes for a grievable …show more content…
Palestinians and other Arab nations have become used to the International communities lack of action in dealing with their issues. For instance, concerning the issue of withholding bodies, Palestinians are deprived of their rights to mourn their loved ones who were killed during the different stages of the Palestine-Israeli conflict, and practice their rites toward death. In addition, one hundred and five Palestinians were killed since the beginning of October 2015, during the last escalations against Palestinians. No one gives them attention comparing with those who were killed with the explosion that happened in Paris, November 14, 2015. With the knowledge that both of what is happening in Palestine and what happened in Paris are acts against humanity. The fact is that Palestinians comparing with the west in the eyes of the world are unthinkable and ungreavable. It is worth to be mentioned that to end the atrocities that are taking place all over the world, all should be treated equally, all lives should be thinkable and gravable with no