Saturday, April 20, 2013

"Human Rights" is misleading and awkward

The term "human right" is misleading and awkward. "Rights" are revocable political dispensations. Human is a taxonomic term designating our species of vertebrates. Implicit in the term "human," is a notion of conscious superiority to all other living things, extending to and including other "humans," some of whom our forebears (or contemporaries) either ate as food or worshiped as gods. Thus, the concept of "human right" is, like us, in a state of continual evolution, subject to whim and caprice; rationality and irrationality, order and disorder; knowns and unknowns; knowables and unknowables; losts and founds; confounds and impounds. And God.