The problem is that in many minds, even some conservative ones, privileges are confused with rights. I cringe many times when I'm listening to TV or reading online and hear/see what some people demand as their right, when it's never been a right and never could become one. Not in the sense of our constitional or human rights.

Civil rights are government granted and not rights at all because they can be given and taken away at will. I think a lot of people confuse civil and constitutional and human rights. Making demands and insisting on laws that will give them something they can't acheive on their own. Whatever they believe they gain from this, it's not a right in the same sense as the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights..... until number 14 which effectively took away most of what we thought we have in the first 10. Or at least the courts see fit to re-interpret those meanings based upon the 14th.

Rights cannot be taken away but the privilege of keeping that right can be. That's why they add law upon law in order to pick to death a right, maybe hoping that people stay confused about their rights, so more can be tinkered with and interfered with.

Our Supremes for example or lesser appellate courts, seem to have made a habit of taking our rights and morphing them into something else with the consent of most people when it fits into their scheme of things.