ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses justifications of the universality of human rights and the problem of motivating the affluent to care about the rights of distant others. I argue that lack of care for distant others does not signify failure to justify human rights as gen-uinely universal. On the contrary, we need to distinguish clearly between the problem of justification and the problem of motivation to avoid having unreasonable expecta-tions for even the best justification of human rights. The problem of motivation must be addressed separately through processes of internalizing human rights norms and developing moral imagination.
