Rights

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Rights are those actions capable of being performed by a human which all other humans are morally bound not to impede. A possible action is considered to be a right when and only when the action is never destructive in any way to the life of any other non-consenting human. A right is said to be "respected" if no human attempts to impede the action considered to be a right. Thus, a human is morally bound to respect the rights of another. The reason for this is because respecting rights is conducive to the lives of all parties involved.

If one person contravenes the rights of another, it is moral and proper for the victim to defend himself against his attacker, as well as to force the attacker to recompense the victim.

The notion of freedom is closely allied with the notion of rights. A person is free to do precisely that which he has the right to do. A person is said to be free (in general) if and when all of his rights are respected.

The individual rights are:

  • Life
  • Liberty
  • Property

There is no such thing as collective rights. In the area of rights, [[statism|statists] have invented many anti-concepts designed to obliterate the concept of rights, or of a particular right. For example, equality. What the hells up with equal chances? If you're born poor deal with it. We manage just fine being rich, you can manage just fine starving. In addition, the pursuit of property, as outlined in the list of individual rights, has caused no documented conflicts. People who say it has are communists.

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