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    Respect for rights is good because people actually have r... — Carmelics
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    Respect for rights is good because people actually have rights, not because respecting rights produces good outcomes.

    Rights & Liberty
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    • 1.People actually have rights — rights are not merely instrumental constructs.
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    • 2.We think respect for rights is a good thing precisely because people have them.
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    • 3.We do not ascribe rights to people merely because it would be good if rights were respected.
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    • 1.The existence of rights is itself justified by their role in securing human welfare, autonomy, or social cooperation—making them instrumentally grounded.
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    • 2.If rights derived no good consequences whatsoever, we would have no principled reason to posit their existence in the first place.
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    • 3.Mill's argument in Utilitarianism ch.5 shows rights-talk is reducible to claims about the highest-utility protections of vital interests.
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    • 1.Rawls's constructivism demonstrates that rights are outputs of rational agreement procedures, not pre-existing metaphysical facts we discover.
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    • 2.If rights are constructed rather than found, their justification must appeal to the outcomes of the constructive procedure, not to bare ontological status.
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    If rights are constructed rather than found, their justification must appeal to ...If rights derived no good consequences whatsoever, we would have no principled r...Mill's argument in Utilitarianism ch.5 shows rights-talk is reducible to claims ...People actually have rights — rights are not merely instrumental constructs.
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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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