By all means measure things, and provide useful services.
But Blinken's virtue-signalling. I don't think he has thought too hard about rights.
We make choices between them all the time. My so-called right to play my music loudly conflicts with your so-called right to peace and quiet. My property right depends on your willingness not to take a walk through my garden. My right to swim depends on you not dropping agricultural waste in the stream we share. My right to discriminate between cake buyers on grounds of religion conflicts with your wish to purchase a gaycake.
That's why rights-based models always result in arguments over competing claims. Claimants inevitably vie for supremacy.
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