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That's the problem, you haven't. You've claimed natural rights exist. You haven't shown that they really do. People are pointing to documents written by people who believed in natural rights. That doesn't prove that they are actually real. If he can't make them go away by saying they do not exist, you cannot wish them into existence by repeating that they do. You have to present some kind of evidence that they're real and differentiate them, in reality, from the only kind of rights we can actually demonstrate exist, legal rights. The burden of proof is entirely on the shoulders of the natural rights proponents. When do you guys think you'll do more than stamp your feet and ardently demand that these things exist?
Okay. I'll concede that you have no ability to think, reason, believe, create, aspire, hope, or conceive outside of what others allow you to do. So for you natural rights don't exist. But they exist for me. And there is no force or power in the universe given to anybody or anything that can prove they do not.