The reason folks need rights is because they don’t necessarily have privilege.

It’s a myth that conservatives protect hierarchy because they think they’ll be on top one day. It’s because they think societal problems boil down to someone in a position of power that they didn’t “deserve”.

Almost all conservative moments can be described as putting the “right” people back in charge (or as removing the undeserved from power). Hierarchy is the through-line of conservatism. I can think of conservatives who hate religion, who want big government, and high taxes. I can’t think of any conservative who wants equality.

Conservative minds see the world as a zero-sum game. Liberals see the world as positive-sum.

You are using rights differently from them.

While you are using rights in the humanist sense of the word, they are also including privileges tied to their “social station” in a “divine right of kings/the master race/…” kind of way. And in the latter there can only be one lord in the castle.

Always love that argument … they don’t want or they disagree with the idea of ‘equal rights’ … which logically means that they are in favour of or agree with the idea of ‘unequal rights’