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

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Mnementh said:

richardhutnik said:

 I had stated that one of the issues with a rights-based ethics system is disagreement on what constitutes rights vs what doesn't.  I believe I also said that you can have other ethical systems based on something else, and the system still have rights.  The problems are issues with prioritizing and inclusion, and the difficulties resolving.  There is also a failure to account for outcomes of behaviors and utilizing these outcomes in determing the right decision or even prioritizing. Other systems don't have this issue, but have others.

There is a catalog on rights, as with a rules based system you have a catalog of rules. The human-rights-charta is such a catalog. You haven't shown, that the human rights have conflicts, that aren't resolvable with priorities usually applied to them. You only could make up other rights that no one ever had in a rights-catalog to show that it doesn't work.

I show you, that no rules-based-system can work, the way you apply your argument:

The rule "Don't follow any rule!" is a valid rule. As this contradicts a rule-based ethical system a rules-based ethical system cannot work.

That's sorta what i've been thinking this whole time.

It's like saying "A vegetarian who eats all fruits can't work because it can be argued Chicken is a fruit!"

I mean... you can argue that... but there isn't any real basis or truth behind it.