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    It is not the case that A violation of a right involves both a hurt to some assignable person and a demand for punishment.

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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