Individual Rights exist because the country you live in affords you those rights.
Individual rights exist because the country you live in affords you those rights. States rights exist because the country you live in affords you those rights. Religious rights exist because the country you live in affords you those rights. When your country asks you to do your patriotic duty and abridge your rights during a crisis of war, pandemic or disaster, you have no right to refuse your 'collective obligation' to your country, because of the state you live within. Individualism at times of national crises is the most unpatriotic and selfish action one can practice. Therefore: A citizen's Liberty mandates a 'collective obligation' to ones country that has gifted them such rights. Therefore affording them the right to live free and gifted to such privileged liberties. Those who hide their 'collective obligations' behind States Rights are individuals who haven't the right to call themselves a patriot of a nation, let alone a citizen of