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I had this experience a short while back, and it really shook me. Granted, this was on the Internet, where people are more willing to say wild things or generally go mask-off, but I was downright flabbergasted. I'll try to summarize the various arguments without inserting my own bias:
because they view human rights as a social or legal concept, and not inherently more important than other social or legal principles
because we as humans haven't historically respected them, and don't respect them universally even now, so demanding respect for human rights is a form of privilege
because the idea of human rights requires a belief that humans have special dignity above that of other creatures (this one I found especially irksome, because I found the arguments denigrating to animal rights)
because various groups advocating for human rights don't agree on what those rights are, so blanket support for human rights is not something they can do
I'll try to find the reddit post where this took place if I can. It was... it was something. If I've misrepresented any of the arguments above, it was not intentional but only because I find them so alien that I cannot understand them properly.
Found the reddit link now I'm off work. I tried to reread it but I got to the part where someone asserted that antebellum chattal slaves didn't have human rights and got too angry / frustrated / disgusted to keep going.
r/AskALiberal question "Do you believe in natural rights?"
InB4 "that's natural rights not human rights": I know the terms aren't synonyms, but the concepts overlap so heavily, and some of the replies to the question were so vehement, that they read to me as a rejection of the validity of human rights as a concept in part or in total. I'm willing to be corrected on this, but if it gets heated I will (advance warning) probably get emotionally overwhelmed and need a long time to compose a reply.
That's mostly just a bunch of different people using different definitions of "natural rights".
Many people seem to think that natural rights are ones granted by nature, but in actual philosophy nobody cares about this. Clearly wild animals or inanimate objects don't grant humans rights, it's what basis humans consider to be the source of a right. A natural right would be a right granted to you by another human based on the nature of your existence. It is a special consideration towards you on the basis that you are a human.
And the "divine right of kings" origin story is ridiculous, the concept of natural rights was not invented to justify monarchy or God.