Philosophy of human rights uncompromising and any derogation from the principles a reason to rise up in arms. This was a problem because; The natural rights “Against which there can be no prescription; against these no agreements is binding” gave the revolutionaries the tools to destroy the very society that Burke believed afforded them with rights. In this way Burke thought the rights contained in the "Declaration" would lead to “the antagonist world of madness, discord, vice, confusion, and unavailing sorrow.” The 18th-century Utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham criticised the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen" in his text "Anarchical Fallacies". He
Jeremy Bentham natural ones, it follows that Bentham does not favour the sacrifice of a few to the benefit of the many. Law professor Alan Dershowitz has quoted Bentham to argue that torture should sometimes be permitted. Bentham's "An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation" focuses on the principle of utility and how this view of morality ties into legislative practices. His principle of utility regards "good" as that which produces the greatest amount of pleasure and the minimum amount of pain and "evil" as that which produces the most pain without the pleasure. This concept of pleasure and pain