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You have to distinguish between human rights and citizens‘ rights.

• sudosysgen 5y ago
  Perhaps, but the predominant rhetoric and narrative is that human rights are the topic of concern, not citizen rights. It's difficult to make the case that only citizens deserve rights without sliding into questionable ideologies.
  • mensetmanusman 5y ago
    Citizens are groups of humans who decide on different subsets of rights. E.g. humans in Germany are not allowed to be educated while young outside of the buildings of the state.
    • sudosysgen 5y ago
      Sure, but that doesn't change the basic point - you can't use an argument for human rights to confer citizen-only rights. If you're the US government, and you're justifying your power by saying that you respect human rights, and then you do a bait-and-switch and provide citizen's rights but not human rights, you just lied. That being said, strictly speaking I disagree, citizens do not have full authority on rights and neither are all rights conferred to classes of citizens.