The Discernable Interviews
The Origin of Human Rights and Self Determination with Human Rights Lawyer Peter Fam
2hr 1min
16 November 2022
Peter Fam is a human rights lawyer from Sydney, Australia. He believes that today’s society has become detached from the principles our species has upheld and respected for thousands of years.
We took a particularly deep dive into the origin of human rights, natural law and how that is evolving in today’s post-modern society that is reimagining the human rights landscape. It forced us to ask deep epistemological questions to trace the authority of self-determination and the origin of truth.
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We discussed:
- Fasting and food shortages
- Human rights law based in ancient Egyptian society
- Greco-Roman natural law
- Society’s attempt to enshrine natural law
- When governments create exceptions to human rights
- Can human rights ever be granted?
- Post modernism and the erosion of natural rights
- Vaccine mandates and human rights
- Australian peer pressure and its convict past
- Contact tracing through Woolworths supermarket loyalty cards
- Privacy as a lightning rod for human rights
- Schools requiring fingerprints to enter bathrooms
- Australians don’t value human rights
- Collapse in trust for medical system
- Parallel systems always arise under absolutism
- Lockdown attitudes are not sustainable
- The psychotic on both sides who are consumed by fear
- The crash that western societies must have
- The inevitable collapse of societies when human rights are trampled
- Blue Zones on earth
- Lifespan vs Healthspan
- Empires that succeed – the British Empire?
- The longest human society – the Indigenous Australia
- How should we measure human ‘success’?
- Objective truth and human values
- Self-determination a modern cross-cultural value, aka ‘Free will’
- What normal people want – comfort
- Useless international conventions on human rights
- When only 10% of population dissent, societies change
- The fires that bring renewal
- How to survive long cycles
- Is there a God?
- Doesn’t take long for bad times to change anymore
- Human rights cases in Australia
- Legal actions claiming false imprisonment in hotel quarantine
- The High Court ‘Australian Babies Case’
- Mehdi Ali, the lying refugee
- Why the left wing refuse to interview
