The Concept of Rights and Happiness

It is a well accepted idea in these days that there is no such thing as an absolute right and wrong. In fact, anyone who dares to make such a statement is labelled as proud, arrogant, hypocritical, or negative. With regards to negativity, it is not a matter of whether a statement implies something and explicitly makes a negative comment. I dare ask the postmodernist, if you think there is no right or wrong, what is "negative" with respect to ethics and morality? We are so inculcated with the idea of no absolutes and that everything is not only open for interpretation, it is as one interprets. This is the core of postmodernism. 

Many argue that the concept of rights is not a matter of morality, it is about achieving human happiness. Human happiness is all we need, we have been taught, and it all seems to make sense. Whenever we lose happiness, all we think is how do we regain it. Many of us devote our lives to buying happiness, beauty, love, health, power and influence. Do these things really make us content with who we are? Do they? I urge anyone to challenge me for saying that we can chase after these things, only to lose them. 

The question that remains is whether helping people, or even emancipating the rights of the marginalised bring happiness.  Sometimes, we can have so much freedom and yet be unhappy. Having such freedom or even protection of human dignity may lead to happiness, but such a framework is not enough to justify why the law should care for the rights of others.