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Indeed.

Additionally I’m sick of people using “human right” to describe every conceivable characteristic of an ideal modern society.

Some things should be basic and a minimum and other characteristics should be add-ons you get for advancing civilization.

Pooling them all together waters down the most important ones.

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I dare say 'human rights' are a list of things people agree to go for and you can make up new ones. I could back the right to a reasonably stable currency. I think it might make more sense than the right to paid holidays (UDHR article 24).

It also allows the usual culprits to reject the whole package as "western cultural imperialism" which is why you can find dictator shills load up the concept with every ridiculous western concept to the breaking point.

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