The natural rights theory of government prevents any individual from having to seek out the person(s) who violated his rights. The government under this theory exists only to PROTECT our moral rights.
America literally debated publicly, in churches, in newspapers, at kitchen tables and in taverns, and in Congress--for two years--how best to protect individual sovereignty, which is what Nozick would have (but his ideas wouldn't work). Madison came up with the Ninth Amendment and the nation loved it.
Unfortunately, we have used the Ninth so infrequently we have lost those individual moral rights that would have been protected. So it's our fault. However, the current Supreme Court has made it easier for the Ninth to be used in the near future. Hopefully we will begin to see it upheld in this field of individual moral rights.
I do not know who Nozick is, but I'm assuming, based on the quote that he adheres to anarchy.
If there are no rules (the basic meaning of anarchy) then there could be no rule against violating someone's moral rights. Hence doing so would not be immoral. This is of course assuming he's a philosophical anarchist and not just a political one.
No. I don't. Because there are too many people in the world and everyone wants their way. And the word violate is in misuse here. People have a tendency of painting pictures that they only want seen.
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The natural rights theory of government prevents any individual from having to seek out the person(s) who violated his rights. The government under this theory exists only to PROTECT our moral rights.
America literally debated publicly, in churches, in newspapers, at kitchen tables and in taverns, and in Congress--for two years--how best to protect individual sovereignty, which is what Nozick would have (but his ideas wouldn't work). Madison came up with the Ninth Amendment and the nation loved it.
Unfortunately, we have used the Ninth so infrequently we have lost those individual moral rights that would have been protected. So it's our fault. However, the current Supreme Court has made it easier for the Ninth to be used in the near future. Hopefully we will begin to see it upheld in this field of individual moral rights.
I do not know who Nozick is, but I'm assuming, based on the quote that he adheres to anarchy.
If there are no rules (the basic meaning of anarchy) then there could be no rule against violating someone's moral rights. Hence doing so would not be immoral. This is of course assuming he's a philosophical anarchist and not just a political one.
No. I don't. Because there are too many people in the world and everyone wants their way. And the word violate is in misuse here. People have a tendency of painting pictures that they only want seen.
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