Do you have rights? If so, where do they come from?

Western civilization has distinguished and prided itself on being centered around human and civil “rights.”
In theocracies and dictatorships of the Middle and Far East, rights are nearly nonexistent with gays being thrown off roofs, women threatened with capital punishment if they’re not covered head to toe, and child molestation made “legal.” Not to mention the total surveillance, social credit score restrictions, and live organ harvesting in China.

​Now in the UK, over 12,000 people are being jailed per year for dissident social media posts. The European Union is being turned into a socialist police state, and it’s the same in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

​In America — the former “shining light on the hill,” home of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights — censorship, election fraud, increased surveillance, politicized lawfare, and dictatorial executive orders are common place.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly giving us access to 99% of the knowledge gained by human beings over centuries, but it is almost totally ethically untrained.
Without exaggeration, I propose that the fate of humanity rests in our ability to identify and align with the true north of a universal morality that clarifies and protects human rights.
So we need to pause, take a breath as a civilization, and truly ask ourselves:

What are 'rights'
​and where do they come from?

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