Study Group

Niiiice @Oaktree!!

How are the readings, gripping and full of fun facts, or dry and dense as heck? Soemwhere in between? 😋

@Jynx

Well I am working on legal and ethical at the moment. Some people may find it boring but I am weird and am getting into it. I just read The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and watched a little video they did in 2023 to celebrate 75 years.

@Oaktree not weird to me!! But then, I am a monumental oddball so maybe I'm not the best yard stick to measure by 😝

Legit I think I find the whole theory of law and policy and stuff to be quite interesting - just seeing human psychology played out in how we use language to try to create systems of safety, and how those systems can often end up doing quite the opposite....

But then I try to read actual laws and policies and my brain just sends me way too many ❌ ERROR: CANNOT PROCESS and I can't take any more info in 🤣

@Jynx

When I was in high school I excelled in Law Studies. I still remember that

»ignorance is no excuse under the law »

@Jynx

You are not an oddball. Some brains are just wired differently. I wonder if the change makers in Canberra find laws interesting or just part of their jobs?

Psychology can be a very interesting field, just not the way they teach it at university. What makes people tick?

My homework is exploring the differences and similarities of legal and ethical frameworks.

Now I am moving on to comparing Un’s Declaration of Human Rights with Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs

Teehee @Oaktree you know... since I was a kid, I've been called weird, odd, strange, etc, almost every day by someone, or at least once by most people I'd ever met. I got to a point in my early 20's where I realised that it probably wasn't going to stop, so I had a choice - I could resist it and be ashamed and miserable every time I hear it, or I can embrace it and make it my armour.

And now it is just that. No one can cut me down with those words because I am a weirdo! An oddball! A misfit! And I don't care who knows it, cos life is more interesting that way anyway 😊

Mainly this is just me thinking about labels generally by the way hun, I know you were being kind and I appreciate it muchly 😉💜

---

@Oaktree wrote:

Now I am moving on to comparing Un’s Declaration of Human Rights with Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs

---

OOOO this has definitely piqued my interest!! Lemme know if anything interesting comes up that you feel could be worth a share!!

@Jynx

I believe that Maslow’s needs are also human rights, however in comparing with UN’s Declaration of Human Rights to there is only loose association between the two. Self esteem relates to article 18 and safety and security, article 3

@Oaktree and I bet nothing in UN about the 'belonging' category, like protections for communities and a right to access social connections?

Been a big theme in my mind of late, community - and how it seems to be so missing from our world today.

@Jynx

maybe we could petition the UN to include belonging.

Huh ty for sharing @Oaktree - almost seems like there's protections for society but not for an individual's right to have access to it.... Wild.

I agree! Cos like imagine if it was a gov't sancionted regulation that every x amount of urban space must have access to a community centre, a park, a shared garden, shared child care facilities, play areas for adults as well as children, and of course a library!! That's how I imagine we could make it a 'right' for everyone to access community!