Often taken to the anarchic with no concern for societal rights.
WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed...
Please tell me how "society" gains more rights than the individual possesses on their own.
Is this the right of three wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner?
"Societal rights" are sophistry. Just because more than one person bands together, that does not expand their reasonable purview. If ten of my friends and I establish a town on some podunk road, do we have a right to enact a law which says every woman coming through town must grant us her favors? If not, why not? We're a "society", and we're declaring our "rights" in law, aren't we? If it's ten thousand, or ten million of my friends, does that make our law any more of a "societal right"?