&gt; Some rights are inalienable, so they cannot be taken away, just violated.<p>The concept of inalienable rights is a moral axiom accepted by some (sort of like the existence of a God with certain preferences, in fact, many conceptions of inalienable rights are <i>specifically</i> beliefs about the existence of a God with specific preferences); its not a material fact or a supportable conclusion.<p>And, of course, people who agree that inalienable rights <i>exist</i> disagree on what those rights are (even those that agree on the <i>names</i> of inalienable rights disagree on the definitions of the rights that those name attach to.)<p>&gt; It&#x27;s pretty obvious that they exist, otherwise nobody would really care about murder, rape, theft, fraud, lying, etc.<p>The fact that some people care about these things establishes that those people have certain moral preferences; it doesn&#x27;t establish the existence of inalienable rights (in fact, many of the people who <i>do</i> care about these things do so based on justifications <i>other</i> than inalienable rights.)