[dragonwriter]

As anyone who lived through the more recent Bush Administration witnessed nearly daily, people claim “not torturing” is an impossible right to give while denying all positive rights—and acted on that argument—so I fail to see the relationship.

[whatshisface]

Denying every right is the last step of the manuver I'm describing, the first step is to re-define right to mean comfort. Bush-era politics just went straight to step 2 and it didn't work on us.

I suspect that the current UN rights council may be an example of this in action. See: the track record of the members on negative rights, the number of positive rights on their list of rights.