“Human rights are just preferences we've collectively agreed to enforce, not universal truths”
Agree
- Rights vary completely across cultures and eras
- No natural law exists outside human declaration
- Philosophy can't ground rights in objective reality
- Rights are whatever we have power to defend
Disagree
- Moral truth exists independent of human opinion
- Universal human dignity is self-evident in suffering
- This logic justifies any atrocity majority accepts
- Rights protect individuals from collective preferences
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