badgenome on 17 August 2012
| richardhutnik said: First, I had been saying that rights-based ethical systems don't provide any basis for duty. They PARTICULARLY don't in the case where someone only believes in negative rights. The people most likely to fulfill the demands of a negative ethical system, are corpses in a graveyard (unless they turn into zombies of course). |
I think basically all ethical systems (save hedonism, perhaps) provide a basis for duty, though what that "duty" is might differ. If one believes in negative rights, then at the very least one has the duties of being self sufficient and not a burden on others and of respecting the rights of others.
