chimera wrote on Oct 13
th, 2023 at 3:04pm:
Frank wrote on Oct 13
th, 2023 at 2:42pm:
I 'smear' nothing.
You can't be born with fully developed language, only with the inherent ability to learn language/s.
That's the smear. You said language is inherent. Yet you know that it's not. 'Rights' of the UN were very rare, as you eloquently confirmed. Humans can imagine them but inherent they aren't.
Language is inherent in humans.
Noam Chomsky, a linguistics prof at MIT, called it 'hard wired into humans'.
You can't be born speaking a language, only with the ability to learn it. Same with walking, tool making, cooperating, planning, etc. That is what inherent means. To realise your human characteristics, your inherent human traits, is your human right - the right to say ll f-realisation as a human being. But since you do not live alone, your rights must be tempered by the rights of other people around you. That's what interpersonal means.
The innovation of Christianity was to say that we are all born with the same inherent tt human characteristics and dignity, that there is no difference in human dignity between sexes, races, classes. This is why human rights is an idea rooted in Christianity, this particular Christian idea, and not in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism or Buddhism, none of which recognise equal human dignity.i