Rights! They're A Religion!

Voting Rights
Medicare-For-The-Elderly Rights
Medicare-For-All Rights
Reproductive Rights
Collective Bargaining Rights
Equal Employment Rights
Fair Housing Rights
Equal-Access-To-Private-Lunch-Counter Rights
Tenant Rights
Gay Rights
Transgendered Rights
Migrant Rights

And let's not forget "free and compulsory" (yes, at the same time!) public education. That's a right, too. 

"But . . . but .. . but . . . . Muh property rights, muh Non-Aggression Principle, muh 'taxation is theft'!"

Rights! They're a religion!

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Eighty-eight percent of Americans believe no business has a right to deny anybody service on account of race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, or national origin. To do so violates the shunned party's "civil rights." 

Seven percent of Americans believe a business has every right to deny anybody service for any reason--including race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, or national origin. To gainsay free disassociation violates the business owner's "property rights." The right to property, these crackpots insist, is a "natural right." 

Nowhere in the West do these ballyhooed property rights exist. The EU democracies all compel association of the natives with the imported hordes from North Africa and the Sub-Sahara. This is not a matter of righting a historical wrong. Western Europe does not share the U.S.' dark legacy of slavery.

So much for empiricism. So much for reason. So much for "natural rights."

Don't do rights. Rights are a religion.