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Is there really a conflict between rights and responsibilities?

May 3, 2010 By admin

Brendan O’Neill writes:

…in seeking to rectify things though problematising the idea of unchecked liberty, and trying to ‘entrench social responsibility’ from above, they fatally fail to realise that only freedom itself can give rise to any meaningful form of moral and social responsibility. They fail to recognise that freedom is not merely a fairly nice thing that people should enjoy in bite-sized morsels called ‘rights’ after they have fulfilled their social duties and obligations. No, freedom is the creator  of moral responsibility, it is a social and moral good, it is in fact the only basis on which a Good Society can be created and sustained.

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