I'm not going to call anybody asinine but the truth is that there are no such things as universal rights. Those clearly don't exist because if they did, they would be universally recognized and none are.
Common decency is a slightly different idea but its one that also obviously doesn't exist among us. Try to define it and anybody will find opposition from human peers. That opposition will be based on emotions or statistical analyses or a combo of both.
We living humans make up rights as we go and assign them where and when we feel like it. Individually and collectively.
In fact, the concept of "rights" is entirely subjective. Even if objective standards exist, humans have proved themselves to be incapable of agreeing on what they are.
All we will ever have to work with are politics and polemics and the outcome of collective decisions based on those will never be certain or permanent. Sad but true for everybody.
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