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There are lots of non political organizations around the world that strive for some particular cause without political backing. Clearly, they're never gonna be as effective as someone who can say "do this or we blow up your country", but on the other hand they're much less prone to corruption of...

But you don't have to go far (ie. Amnesty International) to find a more objective assessment of human rights in whichever country you're interested in. So it's easy enough to cast off the political agenda and find out what's what.

Not as a legal standard, no, but as an ethical one? I mean it's the only global standard we have, is it not? But what is a reasonable human right regardless of society's majority opinion? If there's a forum where personal insults are standard (eg. war torn country) does that mean people...

That's not true. As the wikipedia quote says it's practically unrealistic to expect human rights to be followed. Nevertheless, there are huge differences in the world. As an enemy of the state in the UK you're likely to live much better than in North Korea. Furthermore, your accusation...

Maybe the prophet was wasting his time too, coming up with all those rules noone is gonna follow.

You think it's a waste of time to figure out a moral standard we should all strive to live up to? Does that mean you also think it's a waste of time to have laws in a country, because people will break them anyway?

We have our little debates about morality and we like to take on individual issues, but that's not enough to set a standard for personal freedom. So I thought I should turn to the Declaration of Human Rights as a universal standard and find out if that's something we agree on. The document was...