Michael Mitchell: Archive

The question "Where do rights come from?" should be "How should we protect rights?" And what they are, of course, is taken for granted by both sides because an examination of their nature is counter-productive to their political wishes, i.e., the formation of the particular society in which they would prefer to live. If every social system is devised on the conceptualization of the concept "rights", though, then why isn't it more widely understood rather than widely misunderstood. It's not that complicated to see that co-existence depends on existence, or from a first-person perspective, if you don't have the right to exist, then I don't have the right to exist, or from a historical perspective, no society that failed to protect the rights of its participants has ever survived or even thrived for very long. Rights are inescapable, if we wish to co-exist. Whether or not we can eat our cake and have it, too, is not a matter of personal preference.