What rights do you passionately support that don't affect you directly?

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In Grind Theory, politics and society both boil down to "when do I get mine" and "fuck everybody else." No matter how altruistic people seem, they ultimately care about their own bottom line.

Some more enlightened individuals are able to break out of this, and actually be a decent human being. Are you one of them?

Are there any areas or causes that you passionately support, that do not directly affect you?

Note: I am not talking about issues that you say you support with a a mild shrug. It can't be something you say you support but if it wasn't allowed you wouldn't really give a shit.

And when I say you wouldn't give a shit, I don't mean that you would say "no really... I actually care," before flipping the channel or your mind immediately switching to something else.

Something that does not enter the bubble of your life in any way, shape, or form, but you still feel compelled to campaign for.

For myself, it's obviously gun rights. I have never fired a gun, only seen a gun in person (not on a cop) once. I don't hunt. But gun rights are very important to me.

What about the rest of you?
 
Drugs, gay (and other) marriage, rights for felons, uhhhh I'm sure I could think of others.
 
There is no such thing as rights.

"Core morality tells us that people have a right to what they earn by their own efforts freely exercised. It is this part of core morality that Ayn Rand objectivists, libertarians, and other right wingers tap into when they insist that taxation is slavery... The trouble with such arguments is that nothing is earned, nothing is deserved. Even if there really were moral rights to the fruit of our freely exercised abilities and talents, these talents and abilities are never freely acquired or exercised. Just as your innate and acquired intelligence and abilities are unearned, so also are your ambitions, along with the discipline, the willingness to train, and other traits that have to be combined with your talents and abilities to produce anything worthwhile at all.... We don't earn our inborn (excuse the expression "God given") talents and abilities. We had nothing to do with whether these traits were conferred all of us are not. Similarly, we didn't earn the acquired character traits needed to convert these talents into achievements. They, too, were the result of deterministic processes (genetic and cultural) that were set in motion long before we were born. That is what excludes the possibility that we earned or deserve them. We were just lucky to have the combination of hardwired abilities and learned ambitions that resulted in the world beating a path to our door....No one ever earned or deserved the traits that resulted in the inequalities we enjoy -greater income and wealth, better health and longer life, admiration and social distinction, comfort, and leisure. Therefore, no one, including us, has a right to those inequality. Core morality may permit unearned inequalities, but it is certainly not going to require them without some further moral reason to do so." Alex Rosenberg 'The Atheist's Guide to Reality'
 
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