The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is one of the major steps towards developing basic principles of right that are or should be guaranteed to all persons on the basis of their simple humanity. National or supranational charters may be more limited or broader. They indicate that members of a community possess immunities that the public authorities, and other members of that community must recognise. The problem is that we do not really have a conception of a human community including all human beings. Some humans remain other, whether on grounds or race, culture, gender, or ideology. The other is what we fear, largely, I believe because we project our own negative qualities on them and then hate them for being distorted mirror images of us -- when it is we who have supplied the distorting mirror.
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