The phrase "abstract rights" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about legal, philosophical, or ethical concepts that pertain to rights that are not tied to specific, tangible entities or situations.
Example: "The concept of abstract rights is fundamental in discussions about human rights and social justice."
Alternatives: "theoretical rights" or "conceptual rights".
Because we are not talking about abstract rights, abstract discrimination.
Hate-speech regulations put actual feelings, often honorable ones, ahead of abstract rights — which seems like common sense.
In essence, how are these powerful but abstract rights to be applied when it comes to sexuality and parenting?
Abstract rights are proclaimed for all humans, overlooking the fact that many prefer their ethics in more grounded, context-specific ways.
He has very little patience for what he sees as sweeping rhetoric about abstract rights that mean little to the average Russian.
For eight years, opponents of abortion took the floor of the House and Senate to deplore the practice, armed with graphic charts and drawings, arguing that this was no mere clash of abstract rights but something tantamount to infanticide.
And Sunday morning there was back-and-forth over the abstract "right" to enrichment.
When he moved to Ocean Park, a beachfront neighborhood in Santa Monica, Calif., in 1967, his work eased back toward the abstract (right, "Ocean Park #105," 1978).
If the past 50 years have proved anything, it is that the abstract right to do anything is not the same as actual equality.
As an example, the word dikē originally meant "way" or "manner," and thereafter it acquired the meaning of the "right way of doing something," "the right way of behaving," and finally "abstract right".
The senior author of the review, Dr. F. Javier Nieto, professor of population and health studies at the University of Wisconsin, recommended requiring "that the disclosure is made in the abstract, right up front".
