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To save time: I said US founders invented something, you said actually they got that from Locke. I refuted that by showing that just philosophical influence isn’t replacement for inventing something new.

Then you said my refutation of your original point works in your favor…you can see why somebody wouldn’t follow that logic

Ignore the fact that slavery wasn’t abolished for almost 100 years after the founding of the US, the concept of universal human rights wasn’t *invented* by a small group of people at a moment in time

Ignore the fact that slavery wasn’t abolished for almost 100 years after the founding of the US, the concept of universal human rights wasn’t *invented* by a small group of people at a moment in time

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Even if we grant him the premise that human rights were "invented" by America, that still doesn't explain why Canada and the EU can't have a deeper alliance outside of the US?

It’s simple, it won’t work because it “doesn’t make sense” lolol /s

You’re getting tripped up on the word “invented” don’t take it as a 100% discrete event, it’s just a marker that brings everything together into one model that everybody else now basically uses. 

Obviously those countries literally can physically do that. The point is that it’s interesting because the US created the basis for that relationship in terms of it being about Western values. You can see my train of thought on how those are connected