"Stop fighting back!"
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The entire point of the rights existence is to stop us all from regressing into constant warlord violence. That's the "Order" part. We find a way to coexist and a set of rules to manage our interactions with people we disagree with. Disagree with to the point of violence without those rules.
The result is Capital C Civilization. Structures that take humanity from mud into the stars.
That's the ideal. At its base level it's honorable, admirable, and wraps nihilists and christians in a wide warm embrace that improves the lives of everyone.
The glory of Civilization is delayed gratification writ large. The rule that says, if you don't steal Unga's Oranges makes him more willing to spend time growing oranges. And so you give up a free orange to have 20 cheap ones.
The cascade of that simple idea is everything fundamental to anything good humans have built.
The left has none of that. All their moralizing is referential. Its all concerning managing what IS and rejecting possibility.
So damn right were better than them