The idea of positive rights is that people have a "right" to be given particular benefits, material resources or services by others. They represent claims of a right to recieve positive benefits from other people, in the abscence of any actual "debt" incurred. They require people...
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on Wed, Dec 19 2007
Filed under: Universality, Altruism, Equality, Slavery, Theft, Scarcity