"We live in a world where rights multiply every single day, and everything seems to have rights. Today, rights are the products of imagination, social consensus, even ideology and power. Each group that has the practical force to impose itself upon society can claim to have established one or more new rights, to which everyone has then to bow. Those who don’t are denounced as backward-looking."
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Marco Respinti, "Is Tai Ji Men Punished for Making Humanity More Human?", Bitter Winter (December 2024)
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