Barış Bayram
1 min readOct 15, 2017

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Thank you for your response. My point in relation to your question is that we must work/prioritize to ensure realizing (respecting, protecting and fulfilling) everyone’s human rights in order to be able to increase the probability and quality of human rights realizations for ourselves in the long-term. Because they are causally interconnected in matters of risk-reduction. In very short, say, insofar as they are violated, cooperative behavior/motivations to realize such rights will decrease. Plus, the disadvantaged ones (and those whose rights are violated), causally, have to develop motivations in criminal or problematic ways (or at least, the ways having negative externalities detrimental to others’s future possibilities) for their own survival. So, I mean that, to reduce such risks and to improve positive peace and development in the long-term for oneself, “to really prioritize human rights for all (hence to stand up for others too)” is one’s own greatest real self-interests. Therefore, I implied that, hypocrisy doesn’t work: If someone is left behind, then this means that others too can be left behind in the long-run and also those who are left behind will have to act in problematic ways that will affect the hypocritical ones too.

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Barış Bayram
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