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Originally Posted by calvin-c
Hmm, so if I *can* steal your car it's OK to do so?
Right might be an artificial concept (I, and many philosophers disagree, but numbers don't make us right), but they are the foundation of civilized society.
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No, what he said is that rights are socially constructed. Not all societies recognize the concept of "property", or restrict it to specific categories of "entities" (physical or otherwise).