Gottfried Reinhold Sebastian Treviranus @Gottfried-Treviranus

Chapter Moralische Rechte

The German reader of this comprehensive German panorama of "suum cuique" not only hears the "squeaking of swines", but is also obliged to feel the hot shame of these letters decorating the entrance to the Buchenwald hill of horrors so close to Goethe and Schiller with Latin school knowledge.

Kant's objection, that something held cannot be received (as a gift by societal intrusion) looses might when considering that lawful threat by punishment can restrain those gifted by moral reins that can be at times usefully pulled by such threats. The subjective right of a potential perpetrator to be restrained by the prospect of lawful societal punishment can thus be seen as a modern attributed readiness to profit from such gift - absent in arbitrary or even, as the NS-state realised, reversed settings, which liberate and mobilize perpetrators from oppressing shame for considered or enacted theft and /or murder through e.g. Trumpian "lies about justice" or North Korean pervasive micro-despotism. Justices of many kinds beneath Human Rights accept inequality: to everyone according to his rank down to annihilation.

In all this the strong empathy also for submission, the "persistance" in granting a graduated right - down to annihilation - and the final violence are strong themes of manic-depressive illness.