[Avodah] Rights in halakhah

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:08:26AM -0500, Zev Sero wrote:

> : Except that in rights-based philosophies, at least those in the category
> : of "natural law", recognise only negative rights; i.e. each person has
> : the right *not* to have anyone else do certain things to him...
> 
> Locke wrote about the (positive) rights to Life, Liberty and Property, it
> is his philosophy which shapted the US, and I'm saying that that's a major
> piece to the prevelance of the culture of entitlement in these parts.

On the contrary, those are negative rights.  I can't imagine how you
understand them to be positive rights.

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