a realist and not a Rortian, I am inclined to believe that human rights are best advanced by adherence to truth, not fabulation—a very Jeffersonian point. Without truth, whose vision of which rights uniquely and categorically belong to humans are we to adopt? I suppose it will come down to trickery and coercion, but that is just what Jefferson fought so long and hard all of his life to eradicate from governing.
