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badgenome said:
richardhutnik said:
And another weakness involving rights-based ethics systems is the issues with defining what are rights and what aren't. It is like, so long as someone can argue for something, they can make anything a right.

Again, in a rights based ethics system you have the right to be left the fuck alone and you can't possibly have the right to anything that someone else has to provide for you. What you're describing is people raising their desires to the level of a "right", and that's not a problem of ethics but of politics.

If the entire basis of human interaction is to be left alone, you have little in the way of human action.  There is no such thing as love in this system either.  And there is nothing in this that manages to help people who want to change.  There is no call to do good or serve others.  It is entirely self-focused.  There are no Good Samaritans either. And that which people consider to be noble is gone.  In the world you have, Superman would go in to business for himself, do celebrity route, become famous, and people would end up dying.