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The only ideology that should be unquestioned is human rights.

The one that really pulls my nerve are the hardcore libertarians, because they often pretend to be backed by data when there is no data or contrary data around. Although I mostly lean on libertarianism, hardcore libertarians are usually impossible to argue with.

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There’s plenty of room for reasonable discussion and questions, even about human rights. Are all human rights individual rights, or are there collective human rights (peoples’ rights)? Are there limits to free speech, and if so, what are they? Are liberties more fundamental than rights that require taxpayer expenditure? Is paid holiday really a human right (UDHR art. 30)? Does the expansion of the concept of human rights weaken fundamental human rights?

> The only ideology that should be unquestioned is human rights.

Why should an ideology that’s obviously derivative of Christianity be treated as beyond question and not Nietzscheanism or Wahhabism?

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