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Impossible to Protect Ever-Expanding Rights

The notion of human rights is undermined by the assertion that practically anything can be a human right. If everything is a human right, then nothing is. Thug states get this.

In “Pompeo Tries to Rescue the Idea of Human Rights” (op-ed, June 11) on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s proposed U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights, Aaron Rhodes is correct that the international emphasis on economic and social rights have undermined political and civil rights and ushered in a new generation of identity rights that actually threaten freedom.

What Mr. Rhodes doesn’t hit hard enough is the corrosive effect of creating new human rights that aren’t agreed upon and which are offensive to much of the world....