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    If it’s a right encoded in law, you can see it written down in the text of the relevant law. Freedom is no less abstract than rights.

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        You can observe someone exercising their freedom exactly as much as you can observe someone exercising their rights. What you can’t see is a freedom written down, unless it’s in the form of legal rights. Laws don’t protect freedoms any more than they protect rights. You like the word freedom, you don’t like the word right. They’re both abstract concepts.