"Human Rights" are a beautiful example of an idea that many people willing accept as a positive without reading between the lines.
They sure always sound good!
Since no human society has yet developed the perfect 'code' for life, perhaps we ought to be skeptical of this one.
Some kinds of human rights can be a threat to personal freedom and autonomy.
Here are two almost everybody agrees with:
"Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association."
or
"Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country."
These rights impose no large cost on society except for a relatively fixed, modest per capita cost to prevent others from interfering with these rights. Most nations, even the poor ones, are able to support some kind of police and justice system to keep order.
Then you have rights like these:
"Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality."
and
"Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control."
These rights are highly likely to suffer from feature creep. People can and do vote themselves more and more 'rights' from the public purse. Today a huge portion of taxes paid in the West are converted into transfers of wealth for people who are already quite wealthy.
The positive rights imply a minimum quantity of economic growth without directly saying so. If said growth does not occur in the future, these rights make adaption to difficult times much harder.
TLDR; If you had a country where everything that was not legal, was punished, it would be a bad place to live. If you had a country where more and more rights were being developed, then it would start off a nice place to live and slowly become the first country.