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I understand your argument about the meaning of the term "human right," but that is obviously just a semantic argument. In modern mainstream political parlance,
by baddox 9y ago
I understand your argument about the meaning of the term "human right," but that is obviously just a semantic argument. In modern mainstream political parlance, "human right" means approximately "something that is so important that governments ought to prioritize it and spend public funds on it."
The distinction you're making is that of negative and positive rights, which is an important basic topic in traditional rights theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights