Fact 1

Human rights do not exist.

Most of us think we have a fundamental human right to freedom.

Many believe we have the right to water, the right to healthcare, or even the right to affordable housing and a ‘living wage’.

Rights are appealing because they promise an easier life. We believe that without rights, life is a lawless, dangerous experience. Leaving us exposed to suffering and exploitation.

Rights are guaranteed entitlements. But what in life is guaranteed?

The sunrise?

It's very, VERY likely the sun will come up tomorrow.

But if you're being honest, you don't know if the sun will ever rise again, you certainly can't guarantee it.

You have no guaranteed entitlements, and nobody can guarantee them for you.

The only thing you have ANY control over is your ability to choose HOW you respond to a world you CAN'T control.

And even THAT'S not guaranteed.

Human rights are nothing more than ideas designed to create a guarantee we can't deliver.

Rights can be vague and ambiguous; open to interpretation. They can be edited and adjusted endlessly.

They can be upheld forever, or abolished as soon as conceived.

There is nothing permanent, secure or reliable about human rights.

I've seen no proof that rights have EVER existed.

And if rights don't exist, they can't be bestowed by God, described by a monarch, protected by some union or enshrined in any document.

You may hope we at least have the right to life.

We don't.

It's more accurate to say that we have the opportunity to live—and no one has the right to prevent us!

Because rights don't exist.