Why do people have rights?
Presumably they are gifted to us, as members of a legal entity. Yet what if that entity ceases to exist? Say it declares bankruptcy and goes out of business.
As a particular legal entity, with constituent members/components, is it a "person" in some larger body?
It seems that what is being lost in this discussion is that such entities exist in a context. Nodes in networks. Organisms in ecosystems. Trees in forests. Yet we seem to lack, in our focused attention to entities and objects, any proper sense of this connectivity as anything other than an afterthought. Though it doesn't take much understanding to realize they function as two sides of the same coin. Nodes are not simply discrete creations of other nodes, but of the many and myriad relationships and feedback giving rise to the characteristics of the individuals.
Maybe, if we have some effective sense of this relationship and were not just simplistically focused on the descriptively clear parameters of the objects, we wouldn't have this atomized society of isolated individuals trying to makes sense of a world where our only clear, distilled function is to produce and consume.
Consider that ecosystems are a function of harmonization, where all the varied components do settle into their niches and fill out the larger whole. Like musicians adding their individual contributions to the song, not just all singing the same note.
While the organism is a function of synchronization, where all the internal actions and clocks need to settle into some particular rythmn, in order to function.
When we insist on ecosystems, or in this case, communities, to be fully synchronized, rather than simply harmonized, the effect is an absolutist fanaticism, where you believe in the One God, or you are convicted of heresy and cancelled.
People can function as one larger organism and achieve great accomplishments, or they can function as a mob and destroy anything that is not properly sterilized, quantified and monetized.
Like their environment.
Monocultures and multicultures.
