What exactly is a “right”?

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  1. Andrew Bailey September 16, 2005 at 3:35 pm

    There are many different kinds of rights. Epistemic, political, moral, and so-forth. The most common sort of rights-talk is political. Rights in this sense are (only) things that happen between people. I give some analysis of what this sort of right amounts to here:

    http://wrathius.blogspot.com/2005/08/sort-of-neutrality.html

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  2. Eric September 18, 2005 at 7:19 pm

    Well, my (probably unpopular) view is that it is fundamentally whatever you can do, which, of course, becomes limited by a variety of things.

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