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The problem of things like this is that they are culturally determined, and make the mistaken assumption that everyone thinkslike we do; or even that YOU think like I do.
Ideas of rights that we all think are immutable did not exist some time ago, and may not exist in future.
Some rights seem to be based on the natural feeling that "I do not want bad things to happen to me, and terefore we all have the right to not have those things to happen to us".
Killing people is therefore considered bad - people most often talk about the "right to life".
That however doesn't stop war.
It gets even more confusing when people with differing ideas of the same right come into conflict.
One person's understanding of "right to life" makes them think that abortion is wrong, another person's feeling about "the right to freedom of choice" makes them opose the first person.
Both insist that their version is correct, self evident, and maybe even god given, or prescribed by religeous or political creeds.
The simple fact is that there are very few clear rights that everyone agrees on.
Even the right to bodily freedom doesn't extend to everyone - otherwise prisons would be empty.
It turns out that almost all rights are limited by society; in countries with the death penalty this extends to not even having the right to live your natural term in certain circumstances.
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