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27 August 2002Printer-friendly versionEmail a friend

No one has a human right not to be unhappy

by Mick Hume

Read spiked editor Mick Hume in The Times (London), 26 August 2002:

Want a baby? Feeling unfulfilled or miserable about something else in your life? Then take the fast track to happiness. Contact a lawyer, and ask the courts to sort out your problem using the Human Rights Act.

If current trends continue, we will soon have the human right not to feel unhappy about anything. That should be enough to depress any free-thinking human being.

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