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 ### Why we must graduate past "Equality" as our foundation for rights:
 
+> [TODO:] Find a way to fit this in: "We have rights because of our metaphysical identity as the rational creature. Our species is capable of grasping and acting in accordance with rational laws -- i.e, we are capable of self-governance -- and that is why unless proven otherwise, we have a right to self-determination. 
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 In graduating past "equality" as the foundation for individual rights, we will not destroy individual rights, but instead cement them immovable, impregnable and sacrosanct.
 
 A fool could see with the naked eye no two humans are equal and in fact often because people desperately assert it as being true when it is plainly false, it creates room for bigoted groups like racial-nationalists and so on to claim that they have "special wisdom" as a recruitment tool and style themselves a voice of reason and truth against a mainstream current of lies.