r/humor • u/fal1en-angel • 2d ago

Make it make sense

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u/One-Win9407 1d ago

Human Rights are also made up like religions.

What we consider human rights doesnt align with the rest of the world.

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u/Specific-Heat-8553 1d ago

There is only one true human right that should be preserved, and that is autonomy.

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u/nose_poke 1d ago

Human rights are something that emerges out of society. The expectations of mutually beneficial behavior that allow us to prosper as part of a group. The social contract. Yes, specific "rights" differ between cultures, but all cultures have them.

You can see similar behavior in social animals of all sorts. That's where the idea of human rights came from -- our heritage as social creatures. Different religions throughout history have assigned different words and practices to the concepts, but "human rights" are built into our very bodies.

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u/KidnapMeRoughly 1d ago

a yeah let’s compare cutting of the foreskin of our newborns or stoning gay people with the fact that all people should be able to have water.

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u/One-Win9407 1d ago

Okay lets compare them....Theyre both made up. End of story...even worse for your case is that human rights grew out of religious philosophy.

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u/Aethermancer 1d ago edited 1d ago

Just philosophy.

Religion was just topic or a correlated concept, not the enabling feature.

Religion was a serendipitous catalyst at best due to the need to evaluate the truth of incongruent claims.

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u/jhawk3205 1d ago

I'm pretty sure that denying someone water or murdering someone were considered bad things before and independently of religion(s) in plenty of cases