INALIENABLE HUMAN RIGHTS ONLY EXIST IF WE PROVIDE THEM TO OURSELVES.

By Martin Št?pán

—“Each person has inherent worth, inalienable human rights, and value, but we must not let political correctness dictate reality.”— a friend

Not quite. Inherent worth is Platonism. Your value, just like value of anything else, is subjective and not necessarily positive. The only way to ensure that our value to others isn’t negative is limiting our display, word and deed to reciprocity. Inalienable human rights only exist if we provide them to ourselves.