Editing Golden Rule (section)

===Human rights===
According to [[Marc H. Bornstein]], and William E. Paden, the Golden Rule is arguably the most essential basis for the modern concept of [[human rights]], in which each individual has a right to just treatment, and a reciprocal responsibility to ensure justice for others.<ref>Defined another way, it "''refers to the balance in an interactive system such that each party has both rights and duties, and the subordinate norm of complementarity states that one's rights are the other's obligation.''"{{cite book|last=Bornstein |first=Marc H.|title=Handbook of Parenting|publisher=Lawrence Erlbaum Associates|year=2002|page=5|isbn=978-0-8058-3782-7}} See also: {{cite book|last=Paden |first=William E.|title=Interpreting the Sacred: Ways of Viewing Religion|publisher=Beacon Press|year=2003|pages=131–132|isbn=978-0-8070-7705-4}}</ref>

However, [[Leo Damrosch]] argued that the notion that the Golden Rule pertains to "rights" per se is a contemporary interpretation and has nothing to do with its origin. The development of human "rights" is a modern political ideal that began as a philosophical concept promulgated through the philosophy of [[Jean Jacques Rousseau]] in 18th century France, among others. His writings influenced [[Thomas Jefferson]], who then incorporated Rousseau's reference to "inalienable rights" into the [[United States Declaration of Independence]] in 1776. Damrosch argued that to confuse the Golden Rule with human rights is to apply contemporary thinking to ancient concepts.<ref>{{Cite book |last= Damrosch |first = Leo |title= Jean Jacques Russeau: Restless Genius |publisher= Houghton Mifflin Company |year= 2008 |isbn= 978-0-618-44696-4 |url= https://archive.org/details/jeanjacquesrouss00leod}}</ref>