Caroline Nevejan
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations, 1948) states in Article 1: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience". This leads to the obligation of accountability. The gift of reason and conscience means that people can know what they are doing, can reflect on their acting in terms of normative categories, and can thus be held responsible for what they are doing!" (Hamelink 2000).
MORAL DISTANCE
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How can people who do not know each other live together?
Nevertheless, many people take a 'moral distance' to their own actions. Information and…
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Moral distance towards oneself
Surveillance and identification technologies can follow our actions everywhere: satellites…
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Moral distance towards one's actions
Using transaction and automation technologies one can act in another place at another time just by…
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Moral distance towards other selves
By way of mass media and social network technologies millions of people see Human Rights being…