No, by nature you have no rights to anything

Why we aren't born with rights. Rights as a social construction. About natural law versus natural rights. About innate moral modules and our ingrained sense of justice.

The previous newsletter was about human dignity. I began that article with the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

I came to the conclusion that we are not born with equal dignity. It's such a fuzzy concept that it's better not to use it. It's better to say that we are…