[fineman]

The thing is, saying "X is inalienable" doesn't help anything either. In fact, I feel it hurts to think of it that way because rights only exist in such a way as we make them exist. Cold objective reality doesn't care, nor does a dictator.

We need to reframe rights as a promise to care and ability to help. As in, you can say you've got a right to free speech all you want but it's not until I stand with you that you're actually safer.

Human rights, if you must, would be the code that the average human would care about enough to fight for.