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‘Atlas Society misquotes Ayn Rand’s ‘Collectivized “Rights”’ (3)’
by Dennis Hackethal
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Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression “individual rights” is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today’s intellectual chaos). But the expression “collective rights” is a contradiction in terms.
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Since only an individual man can possess rights…‘individual rights’ is a redundancy. But…“collective rights” is a contradiction in terms.
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