What is a “human right”?
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Rights are things that we, mutually in communities, agree to offer each other. Like a security. Not, necessarily, limited to only humans either.
If you and I promise to ensure, to our best abilities, that both of us will always offer food to each other, unconditionally, then we have just created a ‘right’. If we agree to do this because we believe that a human cannot do without it, it becomes a ‘human right’. These need not be ‘live-threatening avoidances’; we could offer simple comforts like ‘every man should get a comic-book’ and that would then be a right, too.
A lot of people really mythologise what ‘rights’ are and pretend that ‘inalienable rights’ means ‘you’re literally immune to harm’ but that’s not true; they’re just common agreements of protection among a group of people.
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