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    A person does not have a right to something if society ou... — Carmelics
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    A person does not have a right to something if society ought not take measures to secure that thing for that person.

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    • 1.To prove that something does not belong to a person by right, it is sufficient to show that society ought not take measures to secure it for that person.
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    • 2.If society should leave something to chance or to the person's own exertions, society has no obligation to secure it.
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    • 1.Rights can exist as moral claims that precede and constrain what society ought to do, not derive their validity from social enforcement.
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    • 2.Locke's natural rights tradition holds that persons possess rights to life, liberty, and property independently of any social recognition or enforcement apparatus.
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    • 3.If the validity of a right depended on social enforcement, then societies that systematically fail to protect rights would thereby extinguish those rights, which is morally absurd.
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    • 1.The Hohfeldian framework distinguishes claim-rights from liberty-rights, immunities, and powers, none of which are reducible to what society ought to enforce.
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    • 2.A person may possess a legitimate claim-right against another individual without any third-party institution, including society, being obligated to intervene on their behalf.
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    These [two] elements are, a hurt to some assignable person or persons on the one hand, and a demand for punishment on the other. … [T]hese two things include all that we mean when we speak of violation of a right. When we call anything a person’s right, we mean that he has a valid claim on society to protect him in the possession of it, either by the force of law, or by that of education and opinion. If he has what we consider a sufficient claim, on whatever account, to have something guaranteed
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