Wednesday, February 4, 2009

One Factor

Wellman concludes by saying, “Although seriously defective in many ways, the proliferation of rights has done much more good than harm.”(182). I would agree with Wellman on the content he has laid before us that we are in a better place as a society now, working for justice then we were before this proliferation began. Although I do disagree on some of the positions he has taken. It seems to me that the underlying problem for many of these legal and moral rights rest in our judicial system. We can keep forming groups and fighting for what we believe in but until our legal system restructures itself, we are going to keep adding rights and thus devaluing fundamental and more important rights, legal or moral. So if our judicial system is over burdened perhaps it is a consequence of its own actions; by tolerating and listening to so many groups fighting for rights that devalue the current rights we hold.

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