Nida Vasiliauskaitė

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Nida Vasiliauskaitė doctor of philosophy, educator, publicist from Lithuania. She is academic of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University atdepartment of Philosophy and Political Sciences ^[1]. Nida Vasiliauskaitė is member of New Left 95 movement, Union of Lithuanian Young Scientists, Tolerant Youth Association. She is delfi.lt news portal analyst since 2005. She advocates ideas of tolerance, cosmopolitanism, feminism, equality and criticize xenophobia, dogmatic, religious thinking^[2].

[edit] Right to be a human

The right to be a human Vasiliauskaitė defines as follows:

“Human” is not a natural reality, but a sociopolitical category (this means: X “becomes human” only then, when socium DECIDES to recognize the X as a human).^[3]

In other words:

One becomes “human” only by political decision, because DNR parameters in themselves, without benevolent political will, doesn't ensure “human” status to anybody".^[4]

Vasiliauskaitė believes that human rights should be defended only keeping in mind these restrictions and should apply only to such conventional humans.

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