Liberalism is an ideology of perpetually increasing rights and entitlements. The very concept of obligations and duties is antithetical to a committed liberal. An obligation is “an act or course of action to which a person is morally or legally bound”, which of course implies that there are commitments beyond the autonomous consent of the individual. However, what the committed liberal fails to understand is that for each right there is a concomitant obligation. A legal right is simply an instance of a particular
Obligations Over Rights
Obligations Over Rights
Obligations Over Rights
Liberalism is an ideology of perpetually increasing rights and entitlements. The very concept of obligations and duties is antithetical to a committed liberal. An obligation is “an act or course of action to which a person is morally or legally bound”, which of course implies that there are commitments beyond the autonomous consent of the individual. However, what the committed liberal fails to understand is that for each right there is a concomitant obligation. A legal right is simply an instance of a particular