Now that you’ve completed this unit, how would you answer these questions?

• Are rights truly “inherent” and “what” makes them so, particularly if human rights are “inventions”?
• How do we balance the notion of “moral rights” in a secular state or in a world where there are “questions” about the universality of “God”? (i.e., my God, your God)
• How have humans expanded the applicability of human rights to correct “wrongs”?
  

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