4[15] [a] Philosophical scientists often differentiate the right to claims and the right to liberties as positive rights and negative rights respectively (2). Negative rights or Liberties are the individual’s inherent rights to freedom. The sole obligation for others is not to interfere in a person’s decision when it is made by free will. A person’s right to free life, moral truth, privacy, right to stay silent during any legal interrogation, a right to vote freely and marry without being pressurized, a right to fair trial and freedom from unwarranted searches. Essentially, “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” are an apt summarization of the Negative rights.
Positive rights or Claims are an individual’s rights that demand some contribution from others. These are the rights that encompass responsibility, obligations, duties of people to each other. Prime examples of these are the right to obtain a job. For this, the employer must create a job and offer compensations, the government must create job programs for unemployed individuals (1). A right to food and basic necessitates, for this someone must pay bills, taxes and government must create food programs for the poor (1). One way to locate the basic difference between Claims and Liberties is to see who is affected? and how are they …show more content…
While deontology focuses on the morality of an act, whether it was intrinsically right or wrong the other has a completely different take. Utilitarianism focuses more on the results than the morality. Deontologist often argue that logic and sound reasoning encase ethical behavior and the right way of action often follows this encasement. Utilitarianism says it’s okay to behave immorally if the consequence is for the betterment of all. Such stark differences in these two branches of ethics system makes it very difficult to find middle ground between them and to convince their practitioners to play
Positive rights or Claims are an individual’s rights that demand some contribution from others. These are the rights that encompass responsibility, obligations, duties of people to each other. Prime examples of these are the right to obtain a job. For this, the employer must create a job and offer compensations, the government must create job programs for unemployed individuals (1). A right to food and basic necessitates, for this someone must pay bills, taxes and government must create food programs for the poor (1). One way to locate the basic difference between Claims and Liberties is to see who is affected? and how are they …show more content…
While deontology focuses on the morality of an act, whether it was intrinsically right or wrong the other has a completely different take. Utilitarianism focuses more on the results than the morality. Deontologist often argue that logic and sound reasoning encase ethical behavior and the right way of action often follows this encasement. Utilitarianism says it’s okay to behave immorally if the consequence is for the betterment of all. Such stark differences in these two branches of ethics system makes it very difficult to find middle ground between them and to convince their practitioners to play