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Mere-Orthodoxy: A Question

What exactly is a "right"?

At 9/16/2005 03:35:00 PM, Andrew M. Bailey said...: There are many different kinds of rights. Epistemic, political, moral, and so-forth. The most common sort of rights-talk is political. Rights in this sense are (only) things that happen between people. I give some analysis of what this sort of right amounts to here:

http://wrathius.blogspot.com/2005/08/sort-of-neutrality.html
At 9/18/2005 07:19:00 PM, Eric said...: Well, my (probably unpopular) view is that it is fundamentally whatever you can do, which, of course, becomes limited by a variety of things.