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Let me add a couple of points to what I just said.

First of all, the capacity to innovate, to create, and to develop personal projects that I referred to is part of what makes us human. Therefore, if we deny people the right to exercise that capacity we are destroying their humanity. A being that cannot innovate, create, and develop projects cannot live a human life. That may sound like rhetoric, but think about it. I think it is literally true.

Secondly, this human capacity to create is found nowhere else in the universe so far as we know. If we do not protect it, if we crush it, we are removing creativity from the universe.

Again, aren't those good reasons to ascribe rights to people in order to protect their freedom to create? If not, I don't know what would be.