Abstract
Many people fear that the ongoing proliferation of human rights claims may cause the language human rights to fall victim to their own popularity. This paper aims to show why theories of human rights cannot stop proliferation. Contemporary theories of natural rights to welfare are secularized versions of a religious predecessor. Secularization, however, comes at a prize. In the case of these theories, the price is that they fail as theories of human rights on three essential points. They fail to provide a basis for ascribing rights to all and only to human beings. They fail in generating clear criteria for ascribing correlative duties, and they cannot limit rights-claims in a non-arbitrary way.
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