The use of rights discourse stunts human imagination and mystifies people about how law really works. The fourth is at least as prevailing in American law, the discourse of rights reflects and produces a kind of isolated individualism that hinders social solidarity and genuine human connection. He's saying that it has substituted out like in this general focus on the rights by what he he says the progressive left is hyper focused on have led people to ignore problems they otherwise might not have ignored.
Poor and black defendants have more legal rights than ever, but that didn't stop mass incarceration. Why is that? We talk about a paper by Paul Butler called "Poor People Lose: Gideon and the Critique of Rights." Plus, we answer the question that’s on everyone’s mind: how to live as an anti-natalist. And Tamler is appalled to discover David's anti-natalist leanings.
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