[Aliantha]

I've been having this vague, slightly incomplete thought about rights for a long time. In a nutshell it's something like; is a right yours if you don't recognize it as such. ie if you live in a culture that doesn't teach you to expect certain things, then is what you're missing out on a right or just something you'd like.

I guess it comes down to whether rights are a social construct or not, but people seem to have different ideas about what they have a 'right' to.