What Human Rights?

[Muad·Dib]

Sorry, late to the thread..

I do "believe" human rights exist, but only because we've defined them as so. I do not believe they exist outside of what society predefines. There is no objective, eternal set of human rights handed down from Mount Wiggly endowing us as some super-deity's stuck up children.

All of what we define as human rights stem from evolutionary traits. Example: X is good for the species, while Y is bad. When groups of human embraced X they became stronger, surpassing group Y. Over time we came to define these very beneficial traits and use big words such as "human rights", "morality", etc. They are beneficial to the human race regardless of any philosophical definition we've chosen as labels for them. If we never proposed and wrote down as law the idea of human rights they'd still exist as evolutionary traits. We're wired to see these patterns, we define them as good and evil, etc. 

So while I believe in human rights, I don't believe in human rights. If that makes sense...