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Full Idea
Most of those who want to affirm the primacy of rights are more interested in asserting the right of freedom, and in a sense which can only be attributed to humans.
Gist of Idea
For most people the primacy of rights mainly concerns freedom
Source
Charles Taylor (Atomism [1979], p.40)
Book Ref
'Communitarianism and Individualism', ed/tr. Avineri,S. /de-Shalit,A. [OUP 1992], p.40
A Reaction
This is probably more pronounced in North America than in Europe. It may be that without freedom a lot of the other rights are impossible.