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The Importance of Human Rights
The idea of universal human rights isn't a political expression of the 18th century Enlightenment morality, especially it grows out of lock and out of can't. It is what we have retained in the modern world of that noble effort to construct an objective morality without God. And this morality had the form of a respect for universal human rights that we all possess by virtue of our human nature and which we can affirm against each other. But it all went terribly wrong after the Second World War when people lost any sight of what the list of human rights consisted of.