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taleon -> RE: Hawking: God Did Not Create Universe (10/4/2010 3:09:03 PM)
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ORIGINAL: willbeurdaddy
Oxymoronic, unless you use a bastardized definition of "human rights". Human rights are those rights that you supposedly have simply because you are human. If they evolve over time they are social rights, not human rights. And the proof of that is different societies have different definitions of "human rights"
As far as I'm concerned, I was thinking of the universal declaration of human rights. And I do think that those human rights, as put in that declaration, are not applicable to all humans of all times; they clearly were written for a modern world. For example, if I remember correctly, one of the rights is the right to a nationality. Obviously, this right makes no sense in, say, the Paleolithic in which the concept of a nationality surely didn't exist yet. If that implies we shouldn't call them human rights, but social rights... well, ok.
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