The need to change suffrage to enhance

equality pursued by human rights

NAME Jong-Hyeon LEE

Student 2022113023
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MAJOR German and German
Literature
WEEK 3
The dictionary definition of human rights is the basic freedom and rights
that a person enjoys and exercises as a member of country. Here we need
to pay attention to the word ‘basic’. I think the criteria for judging what is
basic may vary from individual to individual. Recently, some people,
including various civic groups, have argued that the state should create an
environment for certain classes of people to realize their rights as human
beings. They say people from low-income families should provide financial
support, including various subsidies, to live human lives on their own
standards. However, I find it very difficult to agree with them, and I think
there is a serious problem with their value judgment on the basic. This is
due to differences in ideas about the scope of the basic, and because they
hold its scope too broadly.

The state operates based on taxes paid by citizens of various classes.

Based on that huge amount of funds, various social infrastructures that
the majority can use equally are established. This infrastructure has high
publicity, and the benefits are equally distributed to most of the people
who use it. However, equality is not sought for the cause of producing
these results, that is, tax payment. Most countries, including Korea, have
different rates of imposing taxes based on income levels. Someone with a
high income level pays 40% of their income in taxes, while someone else
with a low income pays only 10% or so of their income. If an individual
who pays 10 billion won in taxes a year does not use public transportation
and does not receive various social subsidies. Although he has earned a
lot of income through his ability and effort, he believes that paying a lot of
taxes and receiving less benefits from those taxes does not truly meet the
equality that human rights claim. In the current democratic system, these
equality-related problems appear to have more amplifying characteristics.

Human rights that inherit the idea of natural law are evaluated as a right
that everyone should enjoy from the moment they are born. One of the
basic characteristics of human rights in modern society is suffrage. Most
countries around the world form a democratic system based on the
principle of majority voting rights per person. All the people who make up
the country can vote equally in an election, and they do not discriminate
against it on the basis of any relative differences between individuals. I
question whether these principles truly seek the guarantee of individual
human rights. I think it is necessary to further develop and maintain this
society to receive that much reward according to the degree of effort of
each individual. In this respect, the current one-person one-voting right
needs to have a change, and we must discuss this. If not, I think that the
current democracy will inevitably turn into politics by the corrupt public.
There aren't many people in the world who hate money. If things move in
the direction of increasingly losing fairness in the use of national finances,
the nation's existence will soon be jeopardized, with more people voting
for candidates overusing misguided policies that do not care about the
whole country.

Over the past few decades, the amount of national finance has been
rapidly expanding. Legislatures and administrations elected through
elections use them to run the country and enact laws. In order to realize
the equality pursued by human rights, we must balance the tax paid by
individuals and the right to choose the entity that uses it. It is not right for
those who have paid 10 billion won in taxes to the state and homeless
people who do not pay 1 won to exercise the same voting rights and
receive unequal administrative benefits. I think the best way to solve that
is to change the one-person one-voting right. State finances should be
operated based on the value of fairness and equality to the extent that
they guarantee the minimum basic human rights of all citizens.