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Tay Zonday
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Human rights and property rights were treated like the same thing by John Locke and later Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. They both posited a commons where owning space and a right to “be” followed a rationally derived order— and are often credited as early describers of a disembodied “marketplace” that regulates human morality— rather than loyalty to a deity or monarch. “Human rights” partly emerged to describe people being excluded from the rational moral/property commons or marketplace for irrational reasons (race, gender, ethnicity, etc.) Thus, human rights weren’t entirely imagined as “you have a right to not be arbitrarily enslaved” or “you have a right not to be murdered”— but “you have a right to be a rational participant transacting in the meritocratic moral and property marketplace.” Things that deny that right violate your human rights. That’s why the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that unlimited political donations were a human right, just like not being murdered.
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