Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Chapters 5 & 6

What makes a moral right a right? Is it the ability to communicate and articulate that you have a right? Do you have to be goal driven and have humanistic qualities? The problem I have with Rachels is that he says some animals or higher species of animals are intelligent (99) does this mean that only those animals have rights and how can we fairly draw that line?

On 162 Lynch is discussing health care rights and talks about how taxes for medicare and medicade violates some of our rights? It seems to be an on going theme in this book that when we are trying to gain one right we lose another how do we know which ones are more significant or at least place our rights on some kind of equal playing field? After all healthcare is important to all of us especially when it comes to our loved ones, specifically children, but we should have to compromiseour liberty rights to obtain it.

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