Do humans really have rights?

Question: Do humans really have rights!?

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No!. I've done a lot of thinking and research on this subject, and I usually end up in the sh*t for it, but my thinking says, no!. How can a human have rights, thought up by humans, enforced by humans, for the protection of the weaker humans, and then other humans wipe their backsides with those bestowed rights!. You have the right to live! - Bull!. All religions say: "Thou shall not kill" You have the right to clean water, I would say it is your responsibility to keep the water clean!. Some years ago we went for a hike, coming to a sparkling bright pool, in between the rocks with a waterfall flowing into and out of the pool!. Asked the guide if we could drink the water!? "Sure"!. The word still hung in the air, and some hikers jumped in with boots, clothing and all!. Nice drinking water! Me, being pissed off, and some in the water, no doubt, hiked upstream, encountering a baboon troupe of 80 induviduals!. Playing, pee- and pooing in the water!. A bit higher upstream, there were 2 dead ones floating on the water!. And I've rights!! Tell that to nature!. Tell that to the weather, tell that to my car!. Damn thing always breaks, without considering my human right!. The other day, a politician, dressed to the tee, was walking around a squater camp, telling people "that electricity is a human right"!. And the fishy rights, and the birdie rights, and the fly's, cockroaches, rats, ants, slimy nasties, and the animal rights!. No buck turns around and tells the lion: "What about my "bucky" rights!? I've the right to live/life"
Why pull me out of the ground!? Us patatoes, just wrote our patato manifesto and we demand patato rights, immediately!. No dear, humans have only responsibilities, and then you earn the right(s)!.
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Humans by their very nature are self defining creature!. Therefore when a human defines something as a right it becomes part of what it means to be human, and thus it truly does become a right!.

A privilege is something that has to be earned or awarded, and something that can be taken away if you commit an offense of a suitable nature!. According to the Constitution, a right is something that is automatically given and which cannot be taken away because to do so would not only unjustly injure the person whose rights were taken but also the institution that took them away!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Humans have rights because they respect the rights of others!.
Rational humans even respect certain basic rights of others even when they infringe upon the rights of others!.
Though the individuals that frequently infringe upon the rights of others may find that their liberties are greatly reduced!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

We have rights exactly to the extent that we are able and willing to insist upon and defend those rights, not only for ourselves but also for others!.

This doesn't necessarily mean that we have to have the strength to fight for our rights!. Babies and kittens and cows all have some rights, which they preserve through their ability to inspire in others (adult human beings, mostly) a protective urge!. They do this primarily by being cute!. This cute/protective relationship is driven by our own (the adult human's) evolutionary and ecological need for babies, cattle, and pet cats!. If we were to lose those evolved behavior mechanisms, then the babies, kittens, and cows would presumably lose their rights just as, if we lose the willingness to insist upon our own rights, we will also lose them!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

There is no secular authority or appeal to reason on which to base the concept of inalienable rights, no!.

Gratefully, we decide to adhere to rights charters such as the UN Declaration of Human Rights that we can universally agree are in our best interests!. Still, there are no logical grounds that determine the content and - more importantly - strength of these rights; if there was a secular moral authority, it might be possible!.

As it is, they end up more or less representing social norms!. Whilst we can get a consensus on most universally accepted values - right to life, right to freedom of movement - where we really differ is in when these rights should be restricted, such as in the case of a just war (re right to life) or the case of violent criminal (re right to freedom of movement)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

We have inalienable rights!. But if we want the benefits of those rights, the enjoyment of those rights, then we must also be willing to uphold the responsibilities that those rights entail!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

G The universe doesn't care!. There is no one to grant rights or privileges!. We do what we do and have the result!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

yes, so many rights that the new trend is to kill people you don't like!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

We are created with one right which even our creator will not deny us!. Volition!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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