I think it is fine to call agreed on protections humans rights even though they may not be but if we are going to do that I think they should be very limited and there should be serious push back against those that seek to bastardize the threshold for what a right is for personal or political gain. 

Yeah... I know what you mean. Part of why I'm asking. 

kepford

security

Is "the right to self defense" a human right?

I have difficulty with the term human right. Both because the way it is used politically to try and decree everything as a right and philosophically because are there truly any human rights? Sure we have agreed on protections but do we really have a right to them?  

Anyways, whatever human rights actually are self defense should be one of them. 