&gt; its not a material fact or a supportable conclusion<p>Of course, the same argument apply to the axiom that the rights <i>don&#x27;t</i> exist.<p>However, there is a lot of weight to the argument that there is a common list of universally reprehensible wrongs (murder, rape, etc.). Inferring rights from those wrongs is reasonable and doesn&#x27;t require much in way of explaining where they come from.<p>I&#x27;m not sure why people are so eager to disprove the existence of rights, to be honest. The wholesale embrace of moral nihilism seems empirically worse. Or at least, more conservatively, empirically untested and therefore risky.