The thing is, saying &quot;X is inalienable&quot; doesn&#x27;t help anything either. In fact, I feel it hurts to think of it that way because rights only exist in such a way as we make them exist. Cold objective reality doesn&#x27;t care, nor does a dictator.<p>We need to reframe rights as a promise to care and ability to help. As in, you can say you&#x27;ve got a right to free speech all you want but it&#x27;s not until I stand with you that you&#x27;re actually safer.<p>Human rights, if you must, would be the code that the average human would care about enough to fight for.