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I agree! That's why I take issue with calling X or Y human rights. It misleads the average person person into thinking that there is actually is such a thing as
by yasp 4y ago
I agree! That's why I take issue with calling X or Y human rights. It misleads the average person person into thinking that there is actually is such a thing as a human right, rather than the term just meaning "thing we really like".
With that being said, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that assertions about human rights by organizations such as the UN be internally consistent. The UN claims that human rights are universal. Human rights such as to food, shelter, medicine, etc. fail this universality. To provide them requires taking resources from others and reallocating them. Therefore, they are conditional upon the ability of a society to reallocate these resources. Therefore, they cannot be human rights, and assertions to the contrary should be identified as being politically motivated.