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 lol saying"putting words in my mouth" 
and then saying a bunch of stuff I never said.

but basically
yeah

if an individual can't assert "rights" themselves
and everyone else agrees they don't have them,
sucks to be you.

in that situation,
in what sense do they have those "rights" except as imagination?

where do those rights exist?

how would they be guaranteed ?
(except through violence by a 3rd party, which is the usual way of doing it)