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    Rights to democracy and freedom of the press are justifie... — Carmelics
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    Rights to democracy and freedom of the press are justified rights in developing countries

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    • 1.Rights to democracy and freedom of the press are preconditions for the enjoyment of the right to adequate nutrition in developing countries
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    • 2.A right can be defended by showing it supports the enjoyment of an uncontroversial right such as the right to adequate nutrition
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    • 1.John Rawls in 'The Law of Peoples' argues that 'decent hierarchical societies' lacking full liberal rights can still be legitimate and honor basic human rights.
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    • 2.Rights justified solely by their instrumental support for other rights inherit the contingency of that instrumental relationship and cannot ground universal obligations.
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    • 3.When the instrumental link between democracy and nutrition is empirically contested across diverse developmental contexts, the justificatory argument for a universal right collapses.
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    • 1.Amartya Sen's capability approach notwithstanding, empirical evidence shows authoritarian developmental states (e.g., South Korea, Taiwan, China) achieved dramatic reductions in malnutrition without democratic institutions.
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    • 2.If an uncontroversial right like adequate nutrition can be secured without democracy, then democracy cannot be established as a necessary precondition for that right.
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    Philosophers have discussed not only how rights can conflict, but how they sometimes support one another. For example, Henry Shue has argued that both rights of security and rights of subsistence are “basic rights” because they are indispensable for the full enjoyment of all other rights—while other rights are non-basic because they are not indispensable for the enjoyment of these two. If the enjoyment or realization of a controversial right is an important precondition for the enjoyment of an u
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