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by ta8645
1410 days ago
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I don't think humans are particularly special, and I don't believe in human rights. At least in the sense that there is some fundamental guarantee to liberty, property, or whatever. Nature is cruel, and if given half a chance, will for example snatch the life from a 2-month-old baby. That baby did nothing wrong, but did not have the "human right" to life and liberty, just a hope for it. We can still institute rules we agree to abide by, in hopes that our lives will be better overall. But that's just self-interested agreement, not some immutable "right" inherently bestowed upon us. |
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I don't believe humans are particularly special, but "human rights" are nothing more than what societies deem as requirements for leading fulfilling lives and the degree to which we have those rights is determined solely by the willingness of society to protect those rights. There are no "natural rights" only rights that we recognize and implement for ourselves at a societal level. There is nothing stopping a society from making access to something arbitrary a "human right" like the "right to be delivered a new blue hoodie every winter solstice" and then protecting and enforcing that right. If a society decides that humans have no rights, then you'd be correct in that there are no human rights which is what you may experience in some parts of the world.