It’s Official: Your Mask Can Harm You | Activist Post – April 5, 2021

By Janet Phelan The signs are up in so many places now: “No Entrance Without a Face Mask.” “Face Mask Required to Enter this Facility.” “Face Mask Obligatory in this Store.” As part of the new normal, people now regularly don the mask when venturing outdoors or even driving in their cars, as well. But…

It’s Official: Your Mask Can Harm You — Activist Post

Special Rapporteur on Torture’s Report to UN General Assembly Indicts Human Self-Interest | Activist Post

Activist Post – October 26, 2020 | By Janet Phelan

In his report to the General Assembly of the UN on October 15, Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer delivered an incisive and damning indictment of the human propensity for self-deception and denial, citing these attributes as contributing to the prevalence of torture. He discussed how these innate propensities paved the way for denial that torture was taking place and for compartmentalization of one’s own participation in hurting other people. While applauding the normative structure of society and law in terms of “official” prohibitions against torture, Melzer unequivocally stated that these structures were not sufficient in stopping torture, given the human tendency towards self-interest and self-protection, and discussed how this tendency rears up in fear-based societies.

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