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Re:Last major primeval forest in Europe on 'brink of collapse' by giergirey on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:05PM (#14404771)
Relative deprivation certainly seems a better explanation than requiring some mysterious "fundamental universal rights" that people never knew they had until 18th Century Westerners discovered them. Maybe they're a bit like "souls" for atheists?
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Re:Last major primeval forest in Europe on 'brink of collapse' by dragonwriter on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:08PM (#14404813)
Well, fundamental human rights were, by the 18th century "discoverers", usually attributed to endowment by a Divine Creator, so maybe not particularly "for atheists".

But, yeah, they are certainly non-physical non-demonstrable entities that are presumed to exist based on faith alone.

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