What are rights?

Published in Conversations With My Boys - 3 mins - Sep 10
What are rights?
This article was featured in our weekly newsletter, the Liberator Online. To receive it in your inbox, sign up here. Editor’s Note: This was written to introduce the idea of rights to the Young Statesman. What are rights? There are two types or rights: Negative rights and positive rights. If you’ve ever heard the Ten Commandments, you’re familiar with Negative Rights. Thou shalt not…. Negative rights make you refrain from encroaching on the person or property of another.

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