It leads nowhere, they think, because the leading upper class has a lot to lose. So recognition has to be extorted, in which pressure and violence form the only effective way. Most of the people however reject the idea because they aren't willing to accept exploiters, thieves and murderers, rapists and all the other criminals. Afterwards eventually they will recognize their right to live, if these unlucky persons have paid the penalty and if they are capable again to decent behavior. So in fact most of the people really attach conditions to their fellow-men, namely to antisocial individuals, who in their eyes have no right to live in their own rejectable way.
Unconditional recognition is fully out of the question.
Indeed it has to be admitted that it is very difficult to understand that everyone yet has an unconditional human right to live, even if he violates the society and her members. It is hard to accept that criminals have to be respected in this right, although their way of life is fully unacceptable. Yet a mature attitude to life demands from the individual that he doesn't state anything as a condition to the existence of his fellow-men. Actually the difficulty is that accepting unconditionally everybody's right to live also means accepting that criminality can occur and that it is totally wrong to deny on that ground someone's right to live. It is one of the possible aberrations of nature.