Wonky Pundit
USMB's Silent Snowden
Human rights (at least in this discussion) should be considered as completely separate from any nation's laws or anyone's legal rights.
For example, if you did something to another person or withheld something from them, would people believe that your actions are fundamentally wrong, regardless of what nation you're located in? If the answer is yes, that would be a violation of someone's basic human rights.
Here's something more literal: people have the right not to be attacked without provocation.
Obviously there are many more human rights. Which do you consider basic and why?
For example, if you did something to another person or withheld something from them, would people believe that your actions are fundamentally wrong, regardless of what nation you're located in? If the answer is yes, that would be a violation of someone's basic human rights.
Here's something more literal: people have the right not to be attacked without provocation.
Obviously there are many more human rights. Which do you consider basic and why?