Beyond Empathy: Why Human Rights Must Be Translated into Metric Science
2/18/2026 · Foundation Mandate
For too long, the defense of human rights has relied on the unstable foundation of "awareness." We rely on empathy, moral arguments, and corporate social responsibility campaigns to protect the vulnerable. The failure of this approach is evident in the data: despite decades of "awareness," our urban environments remain hostile to neurodivergent physiologies, our physical infrastructure remains impassable for the mobility-impaired, and our algorithms continue to statistically penalize the marginalized.