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Defining a Right

What is a Right?

  • A Right is whatever Society determines qualifies

    Votes: 11 34.4%

  • A Right confers no obligation on another to exercise

    Votes: 10 31.3%

  • Other definition

    Votes: 11 34.4%
  • Total voters
    32
A right is any behavior that society and the government of that society has deemed is protected by law.
 
Renae said:
And, you join the list of not needed to bother with. CONGRATS!
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Simple questions deserve simple answers. I suggest you start with a dictionary and then work your way up to a question that requires some thought.
 
haymarket said:
A right is any behavior that society and the government of that society has deemed is protected by law.
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So a right in you book, can force others to provide for it?
 
Renae said:
So a right in you book, can force others to provide for it?
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What doe you mean by forcing others to provide for it? Like paying taxes or compelling their behavior to allow your right to be exercised?
 
haymarket said:
A right is any behavior that society and the government of that society has deemed is protected by law.
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So when workers were fighting for rights of labour they had no right to do so? As there actions of strikes and protest were deemed illegal by the government.
 
Renae said:
Please define a Right.
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Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people, according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory.[1] Rights are of essential importance in such disciplines as law and ethics, especially theories of justice and deontology.

Thank you wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights

See how easy that was?
 
Renae said:
Nope. Not funny, this is a no funny zone.
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What? A no funny zone!?

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Renae said:
Please define a Right.
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A right is something that a society believes should be granted to all members of it by nature of their birth. They do nothing to earn it or obtain it other than be born.
 
MrWonka said:
A right is something that a society believes should be granted to all members of it by nature of their birth. They do nothing to earn it or obtain it other than be born.
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Filthy pro-choicer... ;) lolz
 
Renae said:
So a right in you book, can force others to provide for it?
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Yes

Without that aspect, a person could be stuck in their home unable to leave their property. As the surrounding property owners do not want that person to go on their land

So the government owns land to provide sidewalks, roads, etc to allow people to travel outside of their home and go to other private or public locations. The government owning land, and providing access to roads, sidewalks is forcing others to pay for your ability to travel off your property. The land, roads, sidewalks are paid for through taxes, paid for by a lot of other people
 
Strange, but it appears that since I've commented this much already, I feel compelled to address the actual topic. I must be coming down with a cold or something.

Several other people have already posted the literal definition of a right, so I won't bother repeating that. Rather, I would like to request some clarification from Renae about her OP; I'm uncertain what is meant by a right being forced upon someone. Is this in regards to healthcare, by any chance? That's about the only thing people are claiming to be a right that I can imagine being forced upon others.
 
Renae said:
So a right in you book, can force others to provide for it?
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Yes. Conservatives believe this too whether they will admit it or not. Conservatives claim that a fetus has a "Right to life" and they seem to have no problem forcing a mother to provide it.

Now, of course, liberals recognize that as ridiculous given that a fetus isn't even a viable life in the first place, and even if it was it has no right to invade another person body.
 
Within the confines of the US legal system, a right is something fundamental,
beyond which the state is allowed to regulate.
They are essentially boundaries on the interaction between the state and the people.
All power is derived from the consent of the governed, so rights would be
those portions of authority reserved for the source of the authority, the people.
 
Jesse Booth said:
Strange, but it appears that since I've commented this much already, I feel compelled to address the actual topic. I must be coming down with a cold or something.

Several other people have already posted the literal definition of a right, so I won't bother repeating that. Rather, I would like to request some clarification from Renae about her OP; I'm uncertain what is meant by a right being forced upon someone. Is this in regards to healthcare, by any chance? That's about the only thing people are claiming to be a right that I can imagine being forced upon others.
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Ya, the OP feels like a trap to me...hehe...

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Renae said:
And, you join the list of not needed to bother with. CONGRATS!
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People from San Antonio have no sense of humor. For good humor you have to drive an hour north to Austin :)
 
OlNate said:
Ya, the OP feels like a trap to me...hehe...

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Of course it is. Not that there's anything inherently wrong in using a simple question to instigate a debate, at least by my reckoning. But of course the actual OP was just the tip of the iceberg.
 
So, if a simple majority decides housing is a right, they can deprive others of property to pay for the shelter of others?

A right is something that does not harm another to exercise. Basic rights like speech, assembly, religious worship, and others that government could not suppress or take away without sacrificing their ability govern legitimately. That is, they would need to use excessive force and be tyrannical and lose consent of the governed.

That is why healthcare isn't a right, its something society has decided people should have for the betterment of that country or group of people, it is not a right. It has a societal cost, whereas free speech has no cost, unless and until it harms another.
 
Jesse Booth said:
Strange, but it appears that since I've commented this much already, I feel compelled to address the actual topic. I must be coming down with a cold or something.

Several other people have already posted the literal definition of a right, so I won't bother repeating that. Rather, I would like to request some clarification from Renae about her OP; I'm uncertain what is meant by a right being forced upon someone. Is this in regards to healthcare, by any chance? That's about the only thing people are claiming to be a right that I can imagine being forced upon others.
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Likely something to do with healthcare and or welfare
 
A natural right is an action an individual, within the state of nature, is able to engage wholly under their own power.

A legal right is any action, status, or privilege than is granted to an individual under the law of the society in which they reside.

Natural rights are independent of any other person, and while an individual is capable of choosing or being forced to limit their exercising of this right it is impossible to permanently remove this right permanently.

Legal rights are dependent on the rest of society, and while an individual can be granted wide ranging latitude in this regard it is impossible to permanently endow the individual with such a right.
 
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