>I’ll have to sound like a broken record, but rights derive from reason.

Does not really sound like an explanation, because everything a person does is derived from reason (rational or irrational), rights included, which is pretty obvious to anyone who spent a minute thinking about it.

What the whole fuss is about is what right are "real" rights, and no amount of "reasoning" will resolve it, because there is no 'right' of 'wrong' rights.

Rights in society emerge from many people trying to impose those universal rules they believe in on others.