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OK, so you define "human right" as "thing you have a moral duty to do your reasonable best to supply fairly to everyone." The reason I feel strongly that we sho
by Georgelemental 3y ago
OK, so you define "human right" as "thing you have a moral duty to do your reasonable best to supply fairly to everyone." The reason I feel strongly that we should use a different term for these, versus by-virtue-of-existing rights like free speech, is that using the same term for both weakens the latter. Free expression, fair trials, etc, are not "best-effort", and belong in a different category. Specifically, it makes more sense to discuss food, water, healthcare, etc with words like "duty" and "responsibility", which better take into account the burden imposed.
- em-bee 3y agothat's fair. i don't care about the term used as long as we agree on the resulting actions that need to be done, and i agree that there is a difference between those categories. as far as i understand it, the definition of human rights includes both but that's an extended discussion. however on your last point, i would argue that despite the difference, free expression or fair trials do also create a duty or responsibility to provide these. for every right that is given, there exists a duty to provide or enable that right. it also works the other way around. if it is a duty to send my kids to school, then i have a right to a school within reasonable distance. if it is a duty to work, then i have a right to childcare. etc. so no matter how you look at it, right and duty are intertwined and can not be separated.