Let's Think Clearly about "Rights"

There have been a lot of protests lately demanding rights for a number of causes. There are demands for civil rights, women's rights, labor rights, tenant rights, voting rights, disability rights, abortion rights, LGBT rights, immigrant rights, gun rights, welfare rights, minimum income rights, free college education rights, and " well, you get the idea.

Many of these "rights" (that is, the specific demands being made) aren't rights as much as they are political movements to abridge someone else's rights or to get some advantage from government and taxpayers.