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I have no rights unless others recognize and at least tacitly agree that they have obligations with respect to those rights. As the only person left in the uni
by vixen99 5y ago
I have no rights unless others recognize and at least tacitly agree that they have obligations with respect to those rights.
As the only person left in the universe (after some cataclysm), you'd be left with obligations but no rights. The obligations would include those that arise from within yourself to prevail and try to survive as best you can. Rights? Well, who would be granting those? The innate bit refers to obligations but not rights.
- readflaggedcomm 5y agoNatural rights exist even when denied and infringed. Perhaps they are discovered as a consequence of human behavior, rather than molded by a grantor in acts of beneficence or compromise.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoCan you name a “natural right”?
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoThis is beautiful and spot on.
- WalterBright 5y agoIf rights are merely a fabrication of government, then it should be possible to create a communist society that works as well as a free society. But they don't. Not even close. Something is fundamentally wrong with communist societies.