More evidence that rights-based ethical systems have flawed foundations.

[thetonestarr]

The way I see it, a heirarchy of rights should follow something similar to Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs:



So, naturally, one's right to live is a greater right than someone else's right to body or health, for instance, and definitely higher than someone's right to self-esteem (thus, abortion, even in cases of rape or incest, would be wrong).

However, this also places gay rights (as far as marriage goes) and religious rights on the same level ("right to the lack of prejudice" vs "right to morality"). So coming up with a solution to those issues would still be a dilemma.