Procedural Guarantees And Substantive Guarantees: Two Important Concepts

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Tadros Bebawy
1- Procedural guarantees and substantive guarantees are two important concepts I learned this week. Actually it is the first time to see these concepts. I learned that both of them are so important in any democrat country. Procedural guarantee is important because it ensures equal rules and process to all the people and this mean equal opportunities, rights, and equal benefits. The procedural guarantee’s role ends at ensuring fail process and then it depend on the person himself to fail or succeed, so it does not guarantee equal or fail results. Substantive guarantee ensures equal results or outcomes. The Substantive guarantee’s role comes after the procedural guarantee role so we can have a fail process and equal results when equal opportunities and capabilities available.
“All governments are violent institutions” is one important thing I have learned this week. Violence does not stop in killing someone, but imprison people consider violence, destroying communities violence, prevent/limit freedom of demonstration is a violent action, ignoring minorities in the society is violence, and many more strategies which many governments everywhere follow no matter how the government itself structured.
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When we say prejudice/ bigotry, we are talking about individuals’ attitudes, believes, ideas, and behaviors. In order to change these people’s ideas there are two ways whether they change themselves (changes personal attitudes) or enforce them to change by law. In racism/sexism we are talking about whole society, groups, systems, institutions, or even community and this is harder to change because we are changing big institutions. This could be change by having new laws and amendments that enforce the huge society to change their ideas, also by doing awareness program to tell the people how the new ideas/roles looks like and this could take very long

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