Is there such thing as human rights? Human rights are laws expressed in a written form that are secured by the government and are responsibilities and principles that all people should follow in certain ways. All human beings are entitled to human rights regardless of age, sex, religion, language and other status, for all people have certain values and ethics which should not be violated (Brown, 2010). One could not understand the danger humanity would face without human rights, which are self-evident for they reduce discrimination and express freedom of speech, promoting democracy.
A solid proof that human rights exist is their history. Human rights did not always exist instead, they were groups of people without rights, taking orders from the chief of the group. Whoever was in a superior group had some comforts while other groups suffered from slavery and humiliation until Babylon was conquered by Cyrus the Great who set free every slave and gave the option to groups to choose their religion. He also wrote these rights in a docket known as the Cyrus Cylinder and that is how human rights were born (Kuhrt, 2013). As other countries started to embrace this idea of human rights, they noticed that people had innate norms that followed since they were born. They called this Natural Law and it
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Consequently, the battle is not lost and it is no surprise that people still believe in human rights, or still try to protect them and pass it to the next generations. Of course, such assumptions might be invalid but even so, the day is not so far when people will understand that behind written forms of human rights, are primitive instincts with respect and equality as a basic mean of