Human-rights advocacy aimed at individuals fails against mass statelessness and discredits itself.

Evidence

The Rights of Man, supposedly inalienable, proved to be unenforceable—even in countries whose constitutions were based upon them—whenever people appeared who were no longer citizens of any sovereign state. To this fact, disturbing enough in itself, one must add the confusion created by the many recent attempts to frame a new bill of human rights, which have demonstrated that no one seems able to define with any assurance what these general human rights, as distinguished from the rights of citizens, really are. Although everyone seems to agree that the plight of these people consists precisely in their loss of the Rights of Man, no one seems to know which rights they lost when they lost these human rights. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 714 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Human rights vanish for people who lack their own sovereign government; Loss of human rights reduces persons to insignificant bare uniqueness; Inalienable human rights prove unenforceable for anyone outside a sovereign state — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 714 (+2 more)

Related

• Human rights vanish for people who lack their own sovereign government (similarity 0.88)
• Modern statelessness strips rights more radically than medieval outlawry ever did (similarity 0.87)
• Inalienable human rights prove unenforceable for anyone outside a sovereign state (similarity 0.86)
• Complete rightlessness is created before the right to live is threatened (similarity 0.85)
• The Rights of Man were only ever enforced as national rights, not universal ones (similarity 0.83)
• The inalienable rights of the abstract individual were immediately fused with national sovereignty (similarity 0.81)
• The legal order presupposes every person must belong to some deportable territory (similarity 0.80)
• Human rights are only protected in practice by one’s own sovereign state. (similarity 0.79)
• Loss of national rights and human rights are experienced as identical by the stateless. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Inalienable human rights prove unenforceable for anyone outside a sovereign state #corroborates (0.85) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 714
• Written constitutional rights fail when the community collectively opposes them #complicates (0.75)