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| 5064 | Rights are moral significance, or liberty, or right not to be restrained, or entitlement |
| Full Idea: A 'right' can mean 'x counts morally', or 'x is permitted to do this' (liberty), or 'x can't be stopped from doing this' (negative right), or 'someone should provide this for x'. | |||
| From: Tim Mawson (Animal Rights talk [2003]), quoted by PG - lecture notes | |||
| A reaction: A useful analysis. It is a useful preliminary to considering whether any of these are natural rights. Personally I am sympathetic to that concept. You cannot deny a person's right to self-defence, even when you are sitting on them. Persons have rights. |