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

[yanamaster]

badgenome said:

richardhutnik said:

Where does one derive any sense of duty from a negative rights based ethics system?  Duty has nothing to do with a rights-based system.

Where does one derive a sense of duty from a positive rights based ethics system? It ultimately just leads to everyone trying to live at the expense of everyone else.

Since when have any ethical systems influence shaped one's sense of duty or the actions that are taken out of the sense of duty?  How one acts isn't based on a set of moral codes as this has rarely anything to do in real life. Most people may claim to be the ethically superior by believing in god and following the good book to the last word and still not help other people should they be in direct offence  of the first parties belief system.

People that claim to have an ethical system that compells them to help people in need end up freezing when a life threatening situation occurs because the codes tells them what they WANT to do and how they WANT to act. It doesn't really mean that they will. As such I would propose to overthrow the notion ethical belief systems somehow determine the feeling of duty as this is a more primary based mechanism within every individual. Ethical systems might be correlated to such feelings of duty but they sure as hell do not determine them.