Oct 20
A Right, Defined
I had a nice conversation with my dad this morning and in the course of it, a question I had been mulling over had come up. What is a "right?"In our society, we throw around the term "right" rather loosely and I wonder if the term is becoming diluted and misapplied. I know the readership here isn't huge, but I am still working this out for myself and I am interested in what everyone else has to say.So how do you define it? Is there a difference between a right and a civil right?Who grants a right?Can you have a right to something that costs money?What disqualifies something as a right (it'd be a right, but for X)?I'm not going to debate, argue, or counter any comments that are left. I plan on taking in what is said and trying to form my own opinion that I'll post later.
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