I hear a lot about civil liberties and rights of a society or a group. Nothing about individual rights.
Whenever it is talked about, it is talked about as a privilege granted by society. Society being disembodied mind of sorts acting upon the will of the majority.
I feel individual rights exist even when it is just Robinson Crusoe on a deserted island. The right to life means he can do whatever he pleases to stay alive and the only obligation for his neighbors (if any) is not to interfere with his rights without consent. I also think rights are not amenable to changes by the will of anybody majority/minority. I think it can be derived from nature of species. For instance unlike ants we ex
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