I can try to provide a perspective. From what moral authority do positive rights originate? (a right that requires someone to provide you with a good or service)
From what moral authority do negative rights originate? (a right that prevents somebody from interfering with you or harming you)
Over the course of hundreds or perhaps thousands of years, negative rights have been developed successfully in legal systems around the world. We’ve seen demonstrable evidence that enforcing protections of negative rights results in a happier and more productive population.Different countries have also, generally more recently, brought forth positive rights by various […]
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