Acest paragraf din eseul (provocator, dar captivant) al prof. Conor Gearty, "Against Judicial Enforcement" mi se pare ca sintetizeaza foarte bine atitudinea fata de drepturi in Romania de azi.
"[...] without a strong supporting framework of values and principles, embedded in society and understood and adhered to across a culture, there is every chance of the language of human rights being drained of its potency, of being turned into little more than a set of hoops that are jumped through by authorities but without yielding any tangible benefit for those for whom it should be a wonderful boon. Human rights talk can be useless if it is simply talk and worse than useless if all it does is rubber stamp unfairness and inequality with the seal of (human rights) legitimacy. Sadly this is a very real threat when human rights are sought to be introduced in a society where powerful actors are resolutely opposed to them, and disinclined to allow their individually minimal propensity to care to extend beyond their family or immediate circle. This is what I was referring to [...] when I talked about the need for the rights values and principles to be embedded in a culture before human rights can be guaranteed the kind of traction they need to succeed beyond the paper which they happen to be written".
Connor Gearty, Against Judicial Enforcement in Gearty, Mantovalou, Debating Social Rights, Hart Publishing, 2011, p. 21-22.
