Human Rights: Subjective Fancy or an Objective Truth?

Are human rights an inherent, inalienable truth? Or are they purely subjective, defined only by the current opinions of the society/collective?

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• equality
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• inalienable
• self
• evident
• truth
• subjective
• objective
• humanity
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• america
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[hamilton701]

Good video. But I think HTTW was a hypocrite on a couple of points. First, he says he believes in the inaleinable right to "life", yet he said he would "gladly" kill innocent people through the use of the death penalty, in order to prevent second time offenders. He is willing to be complicit in taking an innocent person's right to life. Second, he would be okay with being ruled by creationists, even though they have an oppressive interpretation of the right to pursue "hapiness." Just saying.

[larrysg1]

Human Rights are only an Objective Truth if one believes in a Universal Objective Standard. The Dec. of Indep. explicitly states that "all men are CREATED equal"..."endowed by their CREATOR." Clearly, we see the language of Objective Truth here represented by the belief in a God. Belief in Objective Truth is contingent on belief in a Universal Objective Standard.

Also, do rights only apply to humans or to other rational creatures? Oh, so much Kant and Rousseau, I can't take it! :D

[Dodec84]

Of course human rights are "subjective fancy", what else?

[deviantcreep]

Who is anybody to say what values are the right ones? Human beings are diverse and so they should be as this gives us an advantage as a species to NOT have all the SAME values... One cultures values might make them adaptable at one time and then maladaptive when circumstances change. So having lots of cultures with wildly divergent values is actually good for the survival of our species.... Think about it....

[deviantcreep]

@deviantcreep

Yes there is also the inate desire to survive, and to be content but.... There could always be situations where my survival or contentness maybe equal to someone elses demise or misery and vice versa (zero sum). What if I decided it was my right to fly a white pride flag in my backyard. You can bet someone would burn it as people would be offended just like if somebody wanted to walk around downtown nude and masturbate people would be offended and stop it...

[deviantcreep]

The only thing inate that relates to human rights is empathy. Empathy bonds people together which creates common values but those values themselves are NOT truth. Empathy is not any definable value system, it is only a tendency of the brain that gives us an evoltionary advantage. What I consider to be my human rights may be an offense to another and who decides who is wrong? Is it God? Is it nature? No one is wrong. No law can work for all people the same as someone will always feel oppressed...

[dumbzebra]

I really dont get it. How are these truths self-evident? Did I just not pay enough attention?

[Abkerct]

Human rights

Noun

A fairy tale conceived by a bunch of unelected, aristocratic, chauvinistic, slave-owning white guys who didn't want to pay their taxes.

[FlowCell]

I wish you made more videos like this.

[unmarkedX]

good