• • • New ‘rights’ are wrong 
Don Richmond, Naples Daily News (FL) Altruism  |Atlas Shrugged  |Objectivist author  | The Declaration of Independence holds that rights are “self-evident.” However, it is the failure to grasp the true nature of rights which has brought this country to its current condition. It remained for the 20th-century philosopher Ayn Rand to explicitly identify rights as “moral principle(s) defining and sanctioning a man’s freedom of action in a social context.”   Published: 2010-04-24