| richardhutnik said: A rights-based ethics system frames arguments for right and wrong around how much rights are upheld. The system has a much more absolutist view than that of the likes of Utilitarianism, and the measure of it is that rights don't get violated. Other frameworks/systems have other measures, like one based on virtue and how close things correspond to ideal states of being and behavior. So, you are judging the situation, if rights based on what here? What right do you feel that the individuals have at the funeral which is superior to that of the WBC's right of free speech that WBC claims it has. |
Rights should be the foundation of a good ethical system, not the totality of it. Why do you insist that a system of ethics based on rights cannot take into account one single other thing? That seems unnecessarily and impractically rigid.
