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I cringed too, but took solace in Sen's definition, which seems appropriate: As for any religious claim for the origin of "human rights," it's very much a chicken and egg question. I'm of the mind that we've invented God, in part, to justify that which we've deemed our "human rights."it is just a strong way of making a normative claim. So when someone says “health care is a right,” they are really saying in a stronger voice something like “health care is really important, everyone should have the freedom to access it..