Dictum of the day, or on the currency of rights

[T]he protection of a person’s fundamental human rights cannot be reduced to a question of currency. The right to self-determination, to respect for one’s bodily integrity and the right not to be ill treated are not commodities which can be ‘traded’. One should not have to pay to be left alone.

A.A. and Others v. Sweden, no. 14499/09, 28 June 2012, Dissenting Opinion of Judge Power-Forde