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    It is not the case that Anthropological evidence from Hohfeld-analyzed pre-modern societies shows duty-frameworks operating coherently without any correlative rights-concept being articulated or implied.

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    • 1.When pre-modern societies protected persons from harm or assigned resources, they implicitly recognized correlative rights whether or not they named them.
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    • 2.Absence of written Hohfeldian analysis doesn't prove absence of underlying conceptual structure; oral cultures had unstated but operative rights-ideas.
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    • 3.Anthropological claims about 'duty without rights' often misinterpret cultural concepts, projecting modern duty-frameworks onto societies with different structures.
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    • 1.Pre-modern societies organized around kinship and reciprocal obligation operated functionally without explicit rights-language for centuries.
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    • 2.Hohfeld's correlative framework is a modern analytic tool; its absence from ancient texts doesn't prove duties required implicit rights-concepts.
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    • 3.Duty-based ethical systems (Confucianism, Ubuntu philosophy) demonstrate coherent normative orders grounded in role and virtue, not individual rights.
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