Human rights
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Also: men's rights, man’s rights.
Every human right is associated with a social duty, meant to ensure group protection and prevent a return to early antisocial conditions. (81:5.4,6)
Granting rights to individuals inevitably curtails the liberties of all others, a concept enforced through primitive law and taboos. 70:11.2
Men's and women's rights are distinct and essential, each with their own sphere of existence and importance in the evolution of society. 84:5.11-12
Human rights are not truly natural, but rather entirely social and subject to change as the rules of human competition evolve. 70:9.13
Human rights are social, relative, and ever-changing rules of the game in human competition. 70:9.13
Society should fairly administer the varying rights of each individual, providing a fair and peaceful opportunity for pursuit of self-maintenance, self-perpetuation, and self-gratification, thus contributing to human happiness. 70:9.17
Woman acquired rights through the natural progression of societal evolution, independent of man's conscious efforts, as the advancing mores gradually improved treatment of females. 84:5.4
Bible parallels
Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.
See also
- government: principles of government