Ah-- respectfully, Ms. Eskola-Fae?
That’s not at all the case. “Rights” exist in law just about everywhere. (Think, “what am I allowed to do with my property?” Everything on that list of things you can do is a “right.”) Yeah, you can lose a lot of those with the stroke of somebody else’s pen (confiscating your property, at the extreme end, or, less drastically, regulating its use so you’re not poisoning your neighbors), but whatever you can decide to do and be lawfully allowed to actually do is a “right.”
As an example, under my oath to Lunarisse Daphiti, she has a right to my absolute, unswerving loyalty and obedience. I have the rights to have my service taken seriously (I’m a sworn retainer, not a toy) and to dissolve the arrangement on one month’s written notice (her idea; traditionally, a bond like this would have been for life or until she wished it to end).
Those are rights we granted each other in the agreement under which I took oath.
Where things get weird with the Federation is the idea of “inalienable” and/or “human” rights, rights that can never be taken (cannot be pen-stroked away) or that you have just by being a person. It’s kind of the key cultural and legal quirk they have that makes them really weird to the rest of us, and it’s what people in that orbit are pretty much always discussing when they rattle on about “rights.”
But if you insist that that’s what rights are, you’re ceding that definition to their cultural influence, if you follow-- you’re accepting that “inalienable” is something a right needs to be to be a real and proper “right.” And that’s not even a proper usage in the Federation; they, also, have the more limited, law or contract-granted kinds of rights the rest of us do. Those just aren’t the rights they rattle on about.
“Rights” aren’t the problem, though-- aggression, whether military or cultural, is. (Which can be a natural outgrowth of their conception of inalienable and/or human rights, since those concepts allow them to judge our governments and societies as evil for violating the inalienable/human rights they see as being ours.)
As an aside, the list of rights capsuleers enjoy is absolutely absurd by any normal societal standard. It’s why nobody can stop Nauplius mistreating and/or stabbing people in his hangars; that’s his domain, and, like every capsuleer, he can do whatever he wants with things marked as assets there. He’s basically sovereign of his own little nation-state, and due to (sensible; stationside fighting is BAD) stationside peacekeeping policies we can’t even invade.
