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    A violation of a right involves both a hurt to some assignable person and a demand for punishment.

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    • These two elements — a hurt to some assignable person and a demand for punishment — include all that is meant by violation of a right.
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    • 1.Some rights violations cause no identifiable hurt to any specific person, as when public goods are degraded or diffuse harms accumulate collectively.
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    • 2.Feinberg's concept of 'collective harms' demonstrates that wrongful acts can violate rights without producing a determinate victim who is worse off.
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    • 3.A theory of rights that requires an assignable hurt cannot account for environmental rights, future generations' rights, or impersonal moral constraints.
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    • 1.Kant argued that rights violations are wrong independently of harm because they treat rational agents as mere means, violating dignity regardless of felt hurt.
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    • 2.The demand for punishment is a contingent social response, not a conceptually necessary component of what constitutes a rights violation itself.
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    • 3.Conflating the conditions for punishment with the definition of a rights violation commits a category error between the wrong and its warranted remedy.
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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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