Let s do the sensible things anyway, if there is no reason not to do them except for the disparate impact. That itself would probably go a long way toward defusing our problems. The true believer in the myth of natural rights speaks metaphorically but claims to assert a literal truth. In an era of democracy, ethics constitutes a weapon which everyone can employ. In the old regime, the members of the ruling class and those who desired to become rulers continually spoke of their own personal rights.
Democracy adopts a more diplomatic, a more prudent course.
It has rejected such claims as unethical. Today, all the factors of public life speak and struggle in the name of the people, of the community at large.