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== Collective Rights ==
 
== Collective Rights ==
 
Libertarians ignore a lot of reality to sometimes claim that rights (especially property) are always individual.  That's nonsense, usually presented as "Government cannot own things because only individuals can own things": a quick way to "logically" define government as illegitimate.  But of course that ignores corporations, partnerships, joint ownership, marriage, governments and much more.  Collective rights are common in society and play important functions.
 
Libertarians ignore a lot of reality to sometimes claim that rights (especially property) are always individual.  That's nonsense, usually presented as "Government cannot own things because only individuals can own things": a quick way to "logically" define government as illegitimate.  But of course that ignores corporations, partnerships, joint ownership, marriage, governments and much more.  Collective rights are common in society and play important functions.
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== Individual and Human Rights ==
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[[Murray Rothbard]] and some other libertarians claim that individual (and human) rights are actually [[Property|property rights]].  Starting from a fantasy [[Natural Rights]] assumption of property , they build a silly argument.  Individual Rights are clearly not property rights because they do not have all the subsidiary rights typical of property.  This is a classic example of [[Greedy Reductionism|greedy reductionism]].
 
== Notes ==
 
== Notes ==
 
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