Morality

Do fundamental human rights exist?

No justice/injustice. No good/evil. No point in condemning oppression. Because there is no such thing as "ought" on what is.

Governments that kill people? Arrangements of power.

Victims? Biological entities that cease to function.

Morality? Chemical reactions masquerading as principle.

Outrage? Compassion? Flashes of neural electricity soon to be extingushed.

Under an amoral or nihlistic framework, there is no basis for condemning cruelty because there is no standard to violate. It's not just that human rights don't exist, it's that value itself doesn't exist.

If something inside you says "This is wrong. This is evil." Then you're basing that truth on something contradictory to nihilism. You might not want to call it morality. You might not want to call it God, but you're appealing to principles and morals that must exist, otherwise your feelings and judgements mean nothing.

Is the despair and outrage we feel in the face of atrocities an illusion of morality, or is it evidence for morality?

More likely than not, you feel and believe that human lives carry weight.