5 combatirlo, domesticarlo, escapar a él, fecundarlo, jugar con él, correr el riesgo que supone, aprovechar las oportunidades... (...) La vida está siempre al borde del desastre. La muerte está en el universo físico-químico en el que la vida corre constantemente el riesgo de perecer, pero en el que se ha formado, tejido, desarrollado. La muerte está en la indeterminación micro-física, pero indeterminación que al mismo tiempo está en la fuente de las mutaciones y las creaciones, de toda creación. La mutación, fuente de la muerte, es también fuente de la vida. Lo desordenado, ese caos subterráneo y permanente, es a la vez lo que crea y lo que destruye. (...) La muerte, para el hombre, está en el tejido del mundo, de su ser, de su espíritu, de su pasado, de su futuro". 14. However, even deprived of happiness and abandoned to fate (as, in this case before this Court was Mr. Damião Ximenes-Lopes, who, entrusted to social “services” in a “resting” home, there he found violent death), the human being cannot give up the fight for justice, as long as he maintains the capacity of indignation. On the other hand, he shall be deprived not only of happiness, but also of the search for the sense of life, although brief and ephemeral. Another lesson that can be extracted from Electra (and also, I add, from the reaction of Irene Ximenes-Lopes), is that “life is much more comfortable when submitted to the worst injustice and if it is forgotten that it is unjust."175 Indeed, it is more comfortable, but also entirely senseless. Therefore, the inevitability of suffering before human cruelty. 15. In my Tratado de Direito Internacional dos Direitos Humanos, I allow myself to stress precisely the projection of human suffering in time and the focus centered on the victims in the Human Rights International Law. As I state therein, inter alia, regarding that matter: "Human Rights International Law, as essentially inclined to the victim condition, has contributed, to a great extent, to return them the core position they have today in the legal world, - which is its raison d´être. The focusing on the victims in the conceptual universe of Human Rights International Law, not enough analyzed by the legal contemporary doctrine until now, is of paramount relevance and it entails practical consequences. Indeed, it is the very essence of Human Rights International Law, as it reaches its plenitude in the protection extended to the victims. But the rationale of its protection rules and regulations is not exhausted with the protection granted to people already victimized. Human Rights International Law, by its sole existence, universally recognized in our time, protects human beings also by means of the prevention of victimization. The scope of its corpus juris must be appreciated also from that perspective. (...) Human Rights International Law thus contributes to the process of humanization of International Law.176 The treatment given to human 175 . Simone Weil, La Fuente Griega, Madrid, Ed. Trotta, 2005 [reed.], p. 66. . As we repeatedly pointed out in our Separate Opinions in Judgments of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, as, inter alia, in the cases of "Meninos de Rua" (Street Children) (Villagrán Morales et al. v. Guatemala (Reparations, 2001), of Blake v. Guatemala (Merit, 1998, and Reparations, 1999), of Bámaca Velásquez v. Guatemala (Merit, 2000, and Reparations, 2002), as well as in our Concurring Opinion in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights Opinion on the Right to Information on Consular Assistance within the Scope of Due Process of Law Guarantees (1999). 176