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Two Reasons Why Rights Do NOT Come From Government
Chapter 11.3: Where rights don’t come from, 1
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Where Do Rights Come From
Chapter 11.2: Positive and Negative Rights
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Not Everything Improves with Time
Chapter 11: What Is Ours?: The nature of individual rights
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A Proof That 'All Men Are Created Equal'
Chapter 10.5: Automatic Authority Isn't Real
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Where Did Royalty Come From and Where Did It Go?
Chapter 10.4: The Beginning and End of an Error
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Why Do People Fantasize About Being Royalty?
Chapter 10.3: Hereditary Authority: The End of an Error
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Children Have Rights from Birth
Chapter 10.2: Gandhi, Mussolini, sati, and a better way to categorize authority
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Who Is the Boss of You?
Chapter 10.1: Authority and Equality
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Are Animals Moral?
Chapter 9.8: Crowdsourcing the reality that animals demonstrate proto-moral behavior
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On His Deathbed, Anakin Skywalker Becomes Darth Vader
Chapter 9.7: Most people aren't trying to be evil
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Psychopaths, Order-Followers, and Bullies
Chapter 9.6: More reasons for evil
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Are Human Beings Inherently Good or Evil?
Chapter 9.5: The Range of Human Morality
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