Erm  modern theorists of human rights just start from the position that human rights are of course self evidently inherent in each individual, I'm thinking for example of erm Nosette In the tradition of, of natural, in the natural law tradition which Locke erm erm shares erm  there is a basic position which runs throughout them all and that includes incidentally even Hobbes  to the effect that erm  we don't just have rights as individuals, we have rights for a very particular reason.