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    Rights are grounded in fittingness — people have rights b... — Carmelics
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    Rights are grounded in fittingness — people have rights because it is fitting that they should.

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    • 1.The reason people have rights is that it is fitting for them to have rights.
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    • 2.Fittingness, not utility or convention, is the foundational basis for rights possession.
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    • 1.Fittingness claims are explanatorily vacuous: saying rights are grounded in fittingness merely restates that people ought to have rights without explaining why.
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    • 2.A genuine grounding theory must cite independently identifiable properties—such as rational agency (Kant) or sentience (Mill)—that justify rights ascription.
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    • 3.Without such properties, fittingness functions as a placeholder rather than a foundation, leaving the normative work undone.
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    • 1.Hart's interest theory and Hohfeld's analytical framework ground rights in specifiable relational structures between duty-bearers and right-holders, not in aesthetic-normative notions like fittingness.
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    • 2.Fittingness, as deployed in non-naturalist ethics (e.g., Ross, Scanlon), is typically a supervening response to prior moral facts, making it derivative rather than foundational.
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    • 3.Invoking fittingness as the ground of rights inverts the correct explanatory order: prior facts about persons explain both rights and any associated fittingness.
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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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