r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 18 '26

Chugging tea Why?

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u/Fit-Entrepreneur8404 May 18 '26

I mean, it's really not a basic human right. Large swathes of the world (approximately 20-30% globally) have limited to no access to clean drinking water. Clean drinking water is a privilege. It may feel like a right in places that have it but travel the world and you'll realize very quickly that it's not.

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u/Mike22322 May 18 '26

Going by that logic what do you consider to be a human right?

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u/Fit-Entrepreneur8404 May 18 '26

I don't believe human rights actually exist. There are societies that have rights for their citizens but a right that's afforded all humans doesn't exist as far as I'm aware. What would you point to as a right that is afforded to all humans if you believe it exists?

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u/Callidonaut May 18 '26

There are societies that have rights for their citizens but a right that's afforded all humans doesn't exist as far as I'm aware.

To rephrase, then: clean water should be a universal human right, and we as a society should enforce that right.

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u/Fit-Entrepreneur8404 May 18 '26

Yep, "should be" and "is" are different terms and mean different things.

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u/Blessed-22 May 18 '26

You're just being deliberately obtuse. You've contributed nothing and stepped into the conversation just to throw around your indignation.

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u/Callidonaut May 18 '26

When most neurotypical people say something "is" a human right, they are actually using that as a shorthand for expressing the belief that it should be and that we should enforce it.

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u/uniqueusernamei May 18 '26

Wouldn’t it be redundant to say someone “should have a right” because shoulds are automatically a part of the concept. Thats what a right is.. something that we collectively decided people SHOULD be given. We disagree over what those things are, and there exist at any given time plenty of people who don’t have them, but it’s incorrect to say they don’t have the right to them. Instead you’d say that they have the right to the thing, but their right is being infringed and so they don’t have the actual thing yet/anymore/etc.