ity of the transactions themselves. According to Nozick, the exercise of rights legitimately engineers society, but the social engineering of rights is not legitimate.
Individual rights are co-possible; each person may exercise his rights as he chooses. . . . Rights do not determine a social ordering but instead set the constraints within which a social choice is to be made, by excluding certain alternatives, fixing others, and so on. . . . Rights do not determine the position of an alternative or the relative position of two alternatives in a social orderin
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