- "exclusively to build and maintain a strong society" Human rights (i.e. freedom of speech) aren't utilitarian concepts for achieving some secondary end-goal,

- "exclusively to build and maintain a strong society" Human rights (i.e. freedom of speech) aren't utilitarian concepts for achieving some secondary end-goal, like a desired social outcome. They're an end-goal in themselves. That's the core value judgement of free societies: the recognition of human dignity, human autonomy, as an *intrinsic* moral good to be protected at great cost.