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

[richardhutnik]

badgenome said:

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.

If you want to say that negative rights ethical system has a duty, the duty is arguably as little as possible, and be fullfilled by just rolling over and dying.  It is all about leaving others alone, and you don't even need to do anything to help anyone else. You don't even need to be aware of others.