但荒谬的是，在人权最需要得到承认的时候，有些人却认为人权是一个毫无用处的东西，许多英国议员支持将欧洲人权法案编入英国法律，但他们同时也发现：如果给人权以正式承认的话，就会在对抗基地组织这类恐怖主义行为方面遭到极大不便。
Paradoxically, some deem human rights to be wholly inefficacious where their recognition is most required. Many MPs who backed the incorporation of the European human-rights convention into British law came to view formal recognition of human rights as a grave inconvenience when faced with Al Qaeda-inspired terrorism.