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Sending someone to Coventry means, in english idiom, refusing to speak to them, pretending they dont exist.
The origins of the phrase are disputed, but it's clear that cutting someone off entirely from the social world is a particularly cruel punishment.
Not all people who lack social contact have been deliberately ostracized as punishment, however.
Some are just lonely, but that can be a devastating state nonetheless.
There's an interesting question lurking here.
Do we all have a right to social contact?
Kimberly Brownlee believes we do.
Kimberley Brownlee, welcome to philosophy Bites.
Thank you for the invitation.
The topic we're going to focus on is social deprivation.
What is social deprivation?
So I define it as lacking minimally adequate access to decent human contact.
So someone who's put in solitary confinement in prison, or someone who's held in long term medical quarantine, or even someone who's incidentally, chronically, acutely lonely, like the elderly person who's unable to get out of the house to seek social contact, they would be experiencing social deprivation and.
You have to actually feel deprived.
Or is it just that there's a basic need that, whether you realize it or not, you have as a human being?