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is valid because the society is moral towards the individual and gives him or her the credit of
morality. The individual, in Nietzsche's theorisation, returns this credit by remaining moral
towards his or her own person and other members of the society. The government of Pakistan
does not encourage moral behaviour in its citizens because it often operates without a
constitution, with naked power, and by creating many separate domains of legality within a
single national constituency. The government of Pakistan reserves a state of exception, as far as
legality is concerned, for itself. By operating through exceptions and impunities, the state
encourages the citizens to emulate it. As an arbiter of a valid contract, the state of Pakistan fails
to act as a moral agent, it promotes immoral and illegal behaviour in the citizens. To survive
such a state, the so-called "ordinary" individual often becomes as insensitive to human rights as
the state and, hence, the process of brutalisation of an entire population is set in motion.
References:
* Dr. Saeed ur Rahman is a member of the South Asia Forum for Human Rights (SAFHR),
Pakistan.
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