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Nobody has any right/privilege at all, except what a system of rights/privileges spells out.

Behind a system of rights there is always a philosophy, which either postulates rights, or certain primary rights, as being somehow inherent or "inalienable", or else somehow justifies the establishment of rights without circular reasoning ("we need these rights so we can have nice things").



Sure, and I say we should exclude a system of rights and privileges which involves intellectualnproperty




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