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Thanks for the link. As far as I can this again is simply an assertion that something is a right because it fits with a certain set of personal viewpoints. I do, in fact, think that the State has a right to take from me in the form of taxes if they are used to advance the interests of the...

So if rights are not the assertion of group interests and are also not divinely given, where do they arise from ?

Unless we are religious (and I am not) rights are what we are willing to assert they are. The above therefore are as much rights as anything you wish to assert is a right.

What if the "force" is depriving people of housing, employment, education, social services, access to goods and services and so on by treating them as second class citizens ?