One needs to ask the question that why is it that the rights that A wanted, that are agreed upon by the world, were not given to him by the state? One also needs to ask the question that is it not that the idea of citizen is only guaranteed by the state and through the state? These actions of individual and actors, who in this Hobbesian world are continuously negotiating with the omnipotent state, are what mattersTo that one even needs to question the existence of the inalienable rights. And, it is only through the state that these rights are manifested and if powerful, the state can take away these inalienable rights whenever it wills. Then the only question that one is left to ask is what matters more, the agent or the stagnant state?

Source: Pakistan Today February 11, 2019 10:18 UTC