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Comment by biophysboy

2 hours ago

All rights now encoded in law were originally moral claims.

And before they were rights encoded in law were they rights?

I feel it makes your claim weaker to go from "should have" to "is a right" if there's any doubt in it.

There's strong "we have a right to ancillary thing" arguments you can make that rely on a right, but those rely on that right being a given, not the premise