Civil Discourse: Property Rights

Aliantha · 05-30-2011, 08:24 AM

I've been having this vague, slightly incomplete thought about rights for a long time. In a nutshell it's something like; is a right yours if you don't recognize it as such. ie if you live in a culture that doesn't teach you to expect certain things, then is what you're missing out on a right or just something you'd like.

I guess it comes down to whether rights are a social construct or not, but people seem to have different ideas about what they have a 'right' to.

05-30-2011, 08:24 AM	#23
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	I've been having this vague, slightly incomplete thought about rights for a long time. In a nutshell it's something like; is a right yours if you don't recognize it as such. ie if you live in a culture that doesn't teach you to expect certain things, then is what you're missing out on a right or just something you'd like. I guess it comes down to whether rights are a social construct or not, but people seem to have different ideas about what they have a 'right' to. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

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