{"id":2282,"date":"2023-01-23T20:41:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T02:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2023-04-01T12:52:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T17:52:42","slug":"revisiting-the-definition-of-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/23\/revisiting-the-definition-of-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting the definition of rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I believe my derivation of Rights <\/a>from first principles provides the most consistent definition. Let’s see how it holds up in various circumstances, where other formulations fail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My position on abortion<\/a> recognizes viability as the existence of an independent person. This is the beginning of a human life’s ability to exist with a mutual recognition of rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the context of criminal justice, a violation of someone else’s rights demonstrates a non-recognition of rights. As a consequence, the violator’s rights may then lose recognition. Under imminent threat of violence, a person may defend themselves or others against the violator. The violator forfeits the right to life through non-recognition. Following the crime, justice may demand incarceration or punishments, as the violator’s rights are diminished. The death penalty is the ultimate retaliatory non-recognition of the violator’s right to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The consistency of this definition of rights across abortion, self-defense, criminal justice, and the death penalty strengthens the case for it being correct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My derivation of rights provides the most consistent definition when applied to abortion, self-defense, criminal justice, and the death penalty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-rights"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t