The naturality of Natural Rights

This week, we were asked the question "Do human rights exist? Are they real, or why did we decide to create them?" We were then all told to participate in a conversation as a whole class to talk about what we thought about this. At first, i thought we were talking about human rights as we know them now, as a set of  laws striving for justice and equal opportunity for all human beings. But that was not it. Instead, was i later came to understand was that it was not human rights themselves that we were being asked about but rather, about the idea of human rights, being rights we all deserved and simply had the 'right' to have just because we are people. This idea, as i think i mentioned in previous blog posts this week, is the idea of Natural Rights. As the title for this post hinted, i would like to speak of the possible naturality behind this idea of natural rights.

While the actual, literal idea of natural rights sounds to be an obvious phony, the idea behind it makes complete sense to me. Strangely, as the man in document 2 from a reading we had said, wanting is not enough, and i think the should is very similar to wanting, you think something should be because you want it to be so, so bad. So unlike i did in my first post for this week, i do not wish to speak about the answer to the question, but rather of what i think of the question and what i think about this idea of human rights being true natural rights