Do you own your body ? If you believe yes move to question two . Do you have the right to defend your body from invaders ? If yes then keep reading . How can you not see that you ' re assuming the existence of ' rights ' in the second sentence ? Rights have to exist for me to have a right to defend my body . And the fact that I say I have a right to defend myself doesn ' t establish that rights have an existence outside of humans quite the opposite , as I ' m a human . Can you backpedal about a hundred miles and explain how you ' re justifying the humanindependent existence of rights ? For example imagine a hypothetical earth where not one single human thinks about ' rights '. Not a single person is aware of concept , not a single person employs them as a concept , as a law , as anything . If you ' re correct , and rights are humanindependent , then rights still exist on this hypothetical earth , despite humans never once thinking about , talking about them or usingapplying them in any way , shape or form . Can you explain what manner of existence rights have in this scenario ?