What Human Rights?

[Jenny A]

Do you believe in human rights? What do you include in these? What is it that gives anyone a right? 

Remember, I DON'T mean legal rights. I mean something more, in nature, whatever that is, that entitles (is that the word I want?) a person to enjoy certain benefits, and that as a right it is others' duty not to impose or negate that right.

If you do not believe a person has anything like a natural, universal right, then how does that affect your beliefs/actions IRL circumstances when the issue of so-called violations (of life, liberty, property, etc.) comes up?

There's nothing in nature that entitles anyone to anything be they human or tree squirrel.  All human rights are legal rights, or rights that humans argue ought to be legal rights.  Regardless of whether we call them human rights or not, it's very clear that both other humans and/or nature can take them away.  They are alienable. There is no such thing and an inalienable right.  Life itself can be taken in a heart beat whether you think you have a right to it or not.

Adding god to the equation doesn't seem to help.  If we add god we get rights some humans think that god has declared human rights and people ought to enforce as such.  But since humans and/or nature takes them away with impunity, they are certainly not inalienable. 

The more interesting question to me is what rights should we attempt to make legal globally and why.