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What are "Human Rights" and where do they come from?
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<blockquote data-quote="jayem" data-source="post: 73662324" data-attributes="member: 8344"><p>What we call human rights are instinctive desires. We evolved from social primates living in smallish clans or tribes. Within that paradigm, we want the freedom to act so that we, and our tribe, reproduce ourselves and flourish. We want to live in peace. We want our families to have safe, secure homes. To be free from harm. We don't want our resources stolen from us. We don't want be oppressed, or persecuted by either our own tribe members or by other tribes. The specific ways and degrees to which these are expressed can vary among individuals and societies. But at the most fundamental level, our brains are hard-wired to value these aspirations. And we incorporate them into our social order as "rights." As a naturalist, I don't believe we got the concept of rights from any divine creator. We got them from our evolution.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jayem, post: 73662324, member: 8344"] What we call human rights are instinctive desires. We evolved from social primates living in smallish clans or tribes. Within that paradigm, we want the freedom to act so that we, and our tribe, reproduce ourselves and flourish. We want to live in peace. We want our families to have safe, secure homes. To be free from harm. We don't want our resources stolen from us. We don't want be oppressed, or persecuted by either our own tribe members or by other tribes. The specific ways and degrees to which these are expressed can vary among individuals and societies. But at the most fundamental level, our brains are hard-wired to value these aspirations. And we incorporate them into our social order as "rights." As a naturalist, I don't believe we got the concept of rights from any divine creator. We got them from our evolution. [/QUOTE]
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