OK. You want to alter my opinion about these mythical "rights," you need to give me:
1.) a list of them
2.) the story of how they were "discovered":
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Not really. Men discovered rights that always existed in much the same way Isaac Newton discovered gravity.
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What equipment was needed for this discovery? Were they discovered orbiting Saturn? Were they discovered microscopically in someone's blood plasma? Were they lurking in a long-lost Dead Sea Scroll? Did an orange fall on someone's head, so mankind could at last compare the two fruits?
Listen, I am not heartless. I think we have a very nitpicky argument here about "rights" vs. ethics.
What I am saying is that "rights" do not exist, but ethics do -- there is always a question of what IS right. Therefore, good people will make an ethical decision based on the "golden rule" (treat others as you'd want to be treated). But the application of this depends on many things, not the least of which is money and power. Rights, like laws, are only worth their power of enforcement.