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| What is the only system that can uphold individual rights? |
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| Capitalism is the only system that can uphold and protect individual rights. |
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| How do individual rights subordinate society to moral law? |
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| individual rights subordinate society to adhere to moral law because individual rights are the principles that guide an individual's personal conduct and so when individuals come together and interact through contracts based on their common individual rights, these moral principles are translated and amplified to become the moral basis of the laws guiding the conduct of society as a whole. |
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| historically, what has been the code of ethics of mankind's history? |
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| historically man has adhered to alturist-collectivist, with the self-sacrificial devotion to moral duty being regarded as the central purpose of ethics- resulting in placement of society outside of moral law. |
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| In what way is the concept of alturist-collectivism inherently non-functional? |
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| Society is a collection of individuals and therefore cannot be regarded as an entity itself. In this system it is the consequence of establishment of aim of ethics to be actions which are for the best interest of society, the sovereign of the society is able to define what these 'societal moral goods' are and remove themselves from the obligation to conform to them. |
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| what is an amoral society? |
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| An amoral is one in which society is perceived as above the moral law and it's subjects are worshipers of the sovereign whim. |
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| How dose the principle of individual rights represent and extension of morality into the social system? |
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| Individual rights represent an extension of mortality into the social system by limiting the government, and thus protecting men from brute force of the collective. Individual rights redefined the alturistic-collectivistic definition of men as sacrificial means to an end of others to men as a means to their own individual ends and society as a means to the peaceful, orderly and voluntary coexistence of individuals. |
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| What other principles stem from the establishment of a man's right to his life? |
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| By establishing that men have a right to their lives, this right to life becomes the property of the individual. Because society is not an entity, it has no such right and therefore it's only purpose serves to protect the rights of individuals. |
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| A right is a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man's freedom of action in a social context. |
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| From what fundamental rights to all others stem? |
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| All rights stem from the fundamental right to one's life. From this the right to engage in self-sustaining actions is born. |
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| What does a right protect us from? |
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| Rights pertain to freedom of action and thus protect us from physical compulsion, coercion or interference of these action by other men as long as our actions are not intruding upon their own rights. |
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| What is imposed on your neighbors by your natural rights? |
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| When you exercise your natural rights through voluntary freedom of action, your neighbors thereby have no obligation to assist or cater to your actions, but they have a negative right to abstain from interfering with or violating your positive right to freedom of action |
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| If the right to life is the source of all other rights, what other right is necessary to their implementation? |
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| Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, there must be property rights in order to establish man's right to the product of his efforts. |
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| fecal matter which is excreted from the rectum |
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| What point is important to bear in mind about rights, especially when considering right to property? |
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| It is important to always bear in mind that a "right" is a moral principle of right to ACTION, not a guarantee that that action will be successful. This can be illustrated using right to property, which grants the freedom to the action and consequence of producing or earning that object and that if one does earn some, he will be owed it, but it does not guarantee that one WILL earn any |
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| Explain the quote: "The source of man's rights are is not divine law or congressional law, but the law of identity" |
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| This quote establishes that regardless of man's orgins, he is a rational being by nature and thus requires rights in order to survive properly. |
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| What does it mean to violate man's rights? |
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| to violate man's rights means to compel him to act against his own judgement or to expropriate his values by physical force. |
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| Who are the two potential violators of man's rights and how did the US change the role of government to conquer both? |
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| criminals and the government are the two potential violators of man's rights. both were dealt with by the US by forbidding the government from doing the legalized versions of actions that a criminal would commit. this essentially altered the role of government from one of a ruler of the people to one of a servant people who's only proper purpose is to protect them from physical violence. |
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| What was the purpose of the bill of rights? |
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| the bill of rights was a directed against the government with an explicit declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power. |
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| Given that a civilized society bans the use of physical force from human relationships, what becomes the role of the government in relation to force? |
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| The government is the sole wielder of force and it may use it only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. |
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| How has the meaning of rights been 'inflated' and effectively 'plundered' in today's world? |
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| The process of the 'inflation' of rights involves a growth in newly promulgated "rights" whose meanings are reversed from those of a true individual right, but regardless they are absorbed into society without the notice of the people. |
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| How has this infiltration of 'reversed' rights gotten passed unnoticed? |
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| the switch of the concept of rights from the political to the economic realm has allowed for an inflation of rights that do not adhere to the principle context of a right being a freedom to act in accordance with man's rational nature to properly survive. |
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| What values are NOT protected by rights and why? |
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| Man made values, which often involve goods and services, are not protected by rights because any right which imposes an unchosen obligation or unrewarded duty upon another cannot be a right because it necessitates the violation of another individual's rights. |
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| how does "the right to the pursuit of happiness" affect the rights of other individuals? |
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| The right to the pursuit of happiness is not the right to happiness. It means we have a right to take actions that we deem necessary to achieve happiness but it in no way obligates others to make us happy. |
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| What does a undertaking of more than one man require? |
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| An undertaking of multiple individuals involves voluntary consent of every participant. |
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| What are the rights of groups? |
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| There is only the right of man, there are no rights of special groups |
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| What are men's only "economic rights"? |
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| property rights and the right of free trade are in fact political rights, but they are man's only "economic rights" |
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| what is the most dangerous potential threat to man's rights? |
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| Because government holds a monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims, it poses the most dangerous threat to man's rights? |
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| How is the proper protection of government destroyed? What field is this obvious in? |
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| The protection of government is destroyed by ascribing to private citizens the specific violations constitutionally forbidden to the government, thus freeing the government. For example, in the field of free speech there have been multiple examples of individuals right to their freedom of speech by refusing to act in concurrence of their opponent being labeled as "censorship." for example, a businessman refusing to advertis in a magazine that wrote a shitty article about him |
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| What is the issue with the "economic bill of rights"? |
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| the issue with the economic bill of rights is that there is no provision for "at whose cost?" nor are these rights distributed to everyone, only the recipiants benefit. furthermore, these 'economic rights' establish the premise that the ability to provide a material tool for the expression of ideas deprives a man to hold any ideas. in essence, one group of men acquires the 'right' to unlimited rights while another group is stripped of their rights and reduced to a state of helplessness. |
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