(July 16, 2015 at 8:47 am)Nestor Wrote:(July 16, 2015 at 8:24 am)Chuck Wrote: Nothing entitles any human to anything, other than custom, legal structure, or the ability of the human to overcome obstacle and dismiss objections to taking it.It sounds to me like you're saying that you do not believe in human rights . . . But you voted Yes?
For example, the U.N.'s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights states it thus: "Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, or any other status. We are all equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination. These rights are all interrelated, interdependent and indivisible."
i believe inalienable right is a pure fiction which is overall beneficial for the majority to believe.
But you're saying that they're NOT inherent and ARE dependent on custom, legal structure, and brute force?
That's right. It is one thing to recognize something is pure fiction. It is another thing to evaluate whether it is beneficial overall if the majority treated it as if it were real. I think under normal circumstances the society would change in a way that benefit the majority if the majority were to believed certain right were inalienable beyond the vagaries of human institutions, But there are circumstances when such belief could be sharply detrimental to the society, so obviously it is necessary for some to maintain the perspective while other indulge in beneficial fantasy.