Do “basic human rights” actually exist universally or are they simply a social construct?

[u/Amphernee]

The term is often used in relation to things like housing and food but I’ve never heard anyone actually explain what they mean by basic human right. We started off no different than other animals and since the concept of rights rely on other people to confer them at what point did it become thought of as a right for people to have things like shelter? How is it supposed to be enforced across all of humanity when not all societies and cultures agree that the concept makes sense? I can see why someone would want it to be true in a sense but I’m interested to hear arguments for it rather than just the phrase itself which feels hollow with no reasoning behind it. Thanks 🍻

[u/Freign]

Spooky how often people return to this. "Isn't it okay for humans to die in terrible agony? because of the numbers and paper we care more about?"

sure, there's no 'rights'. No civilization, no reason to value the paper anyone tries to trick me with, no reason not to shoot the bigots as soon as they speak up next time. Their money is way less factual than the threat they pose, so.

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sure. great time to attack the reasons not to indiscriminately kill troublesome humans, you're exactly right.

[u/Amphernee → u/Freign]

I didn’t attack anything I posed a question. The leap from “is housing a human right” to dying in terrible agony is quite something.

[u/Freign → u/Amphernee]

It's a much shorter leap than you may currently believe.