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    Fittingness, not utility or convention, is the foundation... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Rights are grounded in fittingness — people have rights because it is fitting that they should.

    Fittingness, not utility or convention, is the foundational basis for rights possession.

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    It is not that we think it fitting to ascribe rights because we think it is a good thing that rights be respected. Rather we think respect for rights a good thing precisely because we think people actually have them—and… that they have them because it is fitting that they should.

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