Human Rights Are Not a Bug
This hijacking of the definition of human rights in the last 50 years is a catastrophy. A human right should only be a negative right, something that I cannot be forced to do. It is a human right that I can&#x27;t be forced to do anything you want.<p>As soon as human rights become things that need work from someone else (healthcare, the internet), you are moving it into the realm of needing taxation and resource allocation by someone (government). You can&#x27;t make healthcare or the internet a human right without taxing people to build it and provide it. Or in extreme cases, forcing people to work. But by doing that you are taking away the human rights of others to their own time and energy.<p>Human rights should only exist as long as they can&#x27;t conflict with each other, otherwise they just become laws. But as soon as you create human rights to things that cost energy (money), you create a conflict between people&#x27;s free choice to live their lives and providing that service to them for free.<p>How do you decide which human right to enforce when they conflict?