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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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