Rights

There's this idea going around very commonly, that individual rights are a modern invention. That's not remotely correct. What is modern is the universality of them. That's very different from individual rights in-themselves. It's the enfranchisement. Enfranchisement was greatly expanded by the Romans though, the Ancient. An individual right is simply entitlement to something, or an informal or formal norm, or what people admit you are allowed to do ("you can talk to your child"). Private property is an individual right, so long as it means a single person can have a right to a land. This is as ancient as Ancient Greece at least. People confuse the state-legislation of individual rights with individual rights in-themselves. As Wikipedia citing Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy points out, "Rights are fundamental to any civilization[.]" If you are gonna argue with that, you're probably coming from a reactive point based on old misunderstandings.G. Eiríksson
Rights are a contstruction of society, and as old as humanity itself. Modern rights are a product of its moral evolution. N.b., evolution simply means order of change through time, but one can theorise on a progressive evolution in a teleological (entelechy) sense.GE
Rights of symbiosis are defined by reciprocity: however much nature gives man, man must give that much back to nature, now a legal subject--- Paulo Tavares | 21 Jul 2011Common Rights: Humans as Nature, Nature as Human (criticallegalthinking.com) i prefer people to believe in rights so they don't mess with me in regards to the ideas the rights refer to, at least--- AAnonDate of entry.
‘right ’from PIE root *reg- "move in a straight line," also "to rule, to lead straight, to put right" Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people, according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory.[1]
 Right, as a substantive (my right, his right), designates the object of justice. When a person declares he has a right to a thing, he means he has a kind of dominion over such thing, which others are obliged to recognize. Right may therefore be defined as a moral or legal authority to possess, claim, and use a thing as one's own. [NA.19]
The right to life is a moral principle based on the belief that a human being has the right to live and, in particular, should not be killed by another human being. [W.r.19]
The right to life is a universally recognized right for all human beings. It is a fundamental right which governs all other existing rights. In its absence, all other fundamental rights have no reason to exist.
For children, the right to life is the chance to be able to live and have the possibility to grow, to develop and become adults. This right comprises two essential aspects: the right to have one’s life protected from birth and the right to be able to survive and develop appropriately. [Humanium r.jan19]
Human rights are moral principles or norms[1] that describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as natural and legal rights in municipal and international law.[2] They are commonly understood as inalienable,[3] fundamental rights "to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being"[4] and which are "inherent in all human beings",[5] regardless of their nation, location, language, religion, ethnic origin or any other status.[3]
Da‘Sentiment and emotion become the new foundation of rights’ — Dan Edelstein, Stanford University c. 2013, on apparently the development of "rights" in the 18th Century. Edelstein also points out that the idea of universal human rights as opposed to rights only for the aristocracy (privilege) appear first in Christian scholasticism. Further shewing my hypothesis that Modernity is the flowering of Christianity (its Age of the Holy Spirit who blows where it wills, or as the German band Scorpions says paraquoted: blows winds of change).
== Criticism ==
"The saturation of our political discourse by “rights” has been noted for generations—one of the better known dissections was Mary Ann Glendon’s 1991 Rights Talk. The concern of those critical of rights talk has usually been that it marginalizes an older discourse of virtue, community and responsibility that once prevailed in Western polities." Katz 2018
== History ==
See similarly: e.g. Rights of Man.
Human Rights.
Legal rights.
== AQ-135: Rights; Fishing; Cannabis; ==
== Branching ==
* See: Right; Right to suicide; Rights of symbiosis; Universal rights; Inalienable rights
* See conversely: Ableism.
*Animal rights; Insect rights; Eco-rights; Rights of the sentient;