Your arguments really sound like “just-so stories” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story) You are picking ex

Your arguments really sound like “just-so stories” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story) You are picking examples that fit your idea of what natural rights should be, and are ignoring the countless counter examples. If a free society is fundamentally better, why is China so successful? Countless empires have been built on 5e backs of slaves, conquered people, and oppression. Yes, most eventually collapsed, but so have all democracies except the ones that are currently around… and there is no reason to believe the ones around are the “end state” of the evolution and not just a snapshot of civilizations that will eventually collapse like all those that came before. Democracies have fallen, to be replaced by dictatorships… dictatorships still exist, and many are successful members of the international community… Saudi Arabia is a strong ally of the US, and doesn’t seem close to collapse.