&gt; You don&#x27;t &quot;have&quot; any personal liberties. You are not born with rights, you are gifted them by a benevolent society. That society can easily lose its benevolence, and take your rights away, and there is absolutely nothing you&#x27;d be able to do about it.<p>Certainly society is a secondary concept to any strictly individual notion (just formatively speaking) - of course one starts at a point where others have already built up what is currently the case, but certainly that&#x27;s not saying anything about rights being &#x27;gifted&#x27; to an individual - only that there is a threat of violence against individuals by society for all matters not included in said &#x27;rights&#x27;.<p>You&#x27;re free to play with definitions as you want - but it would help if you had rather spent that time on a clear argument then on statements such as these:<p>&gt; You might hold a differing view, but the fact is, reality works as I&#x27;ve described.