Full Idea
Personal experience, social sympathies, and history together licence laying claim to rights …which we see to make good mutual as well as individual sense.
Gist of Idea
Experience, sympathy and history are sensible grounds for laying claim to rights
Source
A.C. Grayling (The Good State [2020], 6)
Book Reference
Grayling,A.C.: 'The Good State' [Oneworld 2021], p.137
A Reaction
There are no such thing as natural rights, but there are clearly natural grounds on which it is very reasonable to base a claim for legal rights. If positive rights are just arbitrary, or expressions of power struggles, that is crazy.