I am now a double drop-out

[Papewaio]

"A particular highlight was the article/book we got explaining the origins and ideas of human rights. One page 5, it concluded that "human rights exist by use of language alone and to serve the bourgeois class". Suffice to say, I didn't bother reading the rest of that book."

I can find in nature electromagnetic forces, hormones that make us more connected yet more racist and genes that express our sex.

Human rights on the other hand I cannot find a force, hormone or gene that makes it so.

Human rights are a social creation. Are the rich and powerful bound to the same rules as the middle class? Don't they get better lawyers, deals and access to pardons if they are caught? Aren't those in poverty focusing on survival? We love stories where humans are put in socially abhorrent scenarios and have to fight to survive.

So is human rights real or just a social construct for those who are in control of their own lives but not society ie the middle class?

[HoreTore]

Are the rich and powerful bound to the same rules as the middle class?

Human rights are a set of rules for states, not individuals(as opposed to the genocide convention, which is for individuals).

[Papewaio]

...as opposed to the genocide convention, which is for individuals.

I always thought genocide required more then one... Either actor or victim.

[Montmorency]

"'...What little information we have about the old times, the pittance of data which the Butlerians left us, Korba has brought it for you. Start with the Genghis Khan.' 'Ghenghis . . . Khan? Was he of the Sardaukar, m'Lord?' 'Oh, long before that. He killed . . . perhaps four million.' 'He must've had formidable weaponry to kill that many, Sire. Lasbeams, perhaps, or . . .' 'He didn't kill them himself, Stil. He killed the way I kill, by sending out his legions. There's another emperor I want you to note in passing--a Hitler. He killed more than six million. Pretty good for those days.' 'Killed . . . by his legions?' Stilgar asked. 'Yes.' 'Not very impressive statistics, m'Lord.' "

It's all relative, as you know.