The founders of liberalism grounded egalitarianism not in an agreement that we should pretend to consider each other of equal value but because they said people are intrinsically of equal value as all are made to the same extent in the image of God. Inalienable conferred rights have to be given in this way in order to have the requisite weight.erm both obvs
I think a good general rule of thumb is that very few people actively enjoy being oppressed.An argument often used by the elites within a group to violate human rights of the oppressed within the same group
the world is rattling on, and the idea of human rights is one thing that tries to keep bad shit from happening.I suppose it comes down to whether you think things are generally better now that they were before. You could equally argue that things are just as bad if not worse, and that is a result of the failure of the human rights approach.