Another source of light pollution
On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 16:46:31 -0700, Chris L Peterson
wrote:
On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 19:56:58 +0100, Paul Schlyter
wrote:
On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 07:56:47 -0700, Chris L Peterson
wrote:
On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 09:31:25 +0100, Paul Schlyter
wrote:
So your rights are merely a concept in theoretical philosophy,
with
no implementation in the real world?
There is no suggestion within moral philosophy that rights are
merely
"theoretical". The question is one of what they are (the
definition
problem) and where they come from (the origin problem).
Has the definition problem been solved? Or do philosophers still
don't know what rights are?
These things are not strictly solvable, because rights are not
matters
of fact. They depend upon definitions, and because those are always
value based, there will never be agreement.
Which means that the WWII Nazis had the right to do the Holocaust:
their value system said so, and they even had laws supporting that
right.
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