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False and here's why:

There are rights which are fundamental. Saying "definition", as if it is a flexible description does not satisfy the reality. These rights are defined by the fact that they are inherent.

Your example is a perfectly described granted right. You have been granted the right to something which is not yours and you have no other right to take.

The distinction is important. There is no moral hazard nor wrong committed in preventing someone from harvesting organs without permission. There is a wrong perpetrated when someone has been restricted in their speech or movement.

The usefulness, as you say, lies in the treatment of these things as distinctly different in nature




There is no such thing as an inherent right. Rights are a legal construct. They don't grow on trees and are not laws of physics. There are rights that I may believe should be universal, yet very clearly are not.




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