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    It is not the case that Therefore, formally possessing rights of exclusion, exit, and autonomy is compatible with being structurally unable to benefit from any of them.

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    • 1.If rights cannot be meaningfully exercised, calling them 'rights' becomes merely semantic—they lack the normative force that defines rights.
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    • 2.Any coherent rights framework must include some responsibility to ensure conditions enabling exercise; otherwise rights-talk is conceptually hollow.
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    • 1.Formal rights can be legally guaranteed while systemic barriers (poverty, discrimination, social isolation) make their exercise practically impossible.
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    • 2.A person may have the right to exit a bad situation but lack resources, information, or social capital needed to actually leave.
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    • 3.Rights are often negative (freedom from interference) rather than positive (capacity to act), so formal possession doesn't guarantee functional benefit.
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