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	Podcast:		A Point of View
	Episode:		Two Cheers for Human Rights
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:09:21
	Publish Date:		2013-12-27 15:00:00
	Description:		John Gray gives only two cheers for human rights. We are in danger, he argues, of turning them into a "comforting dogma through which we try to escape the painful dilemmas of war and politics." "Rather than thinking of rights as a militant creed that can deliver the world from its conflicts, we should recognise rights for what they are - useful devices that quite often don't work.".
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