{"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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I believe my derivation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/04\/rights\/\" title=\"Rights \u2013 a derivation from first principles\">Rights <\/a>from first principles provides the most consistent definition. Let&#8217;s see how it holds up in various circumstances, where other formulations fail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/09\/my-position-on-abortion\/\" title=\"my position on abortion\">position on abortion<\/a> recognizes viability as the existence of an independent person. This is the beginning of a human life&#8217;s ability to exist with a mutual recognition of rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the context of criminal justice, a violation of someone else&#8217;s rights demonstrates a non-recognition of rights. As a consequence, the violator&#8217;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&#8217;s rights are diminished. The death penalty is the ultimate retaliatory non-recognition of the violator&#8217;s right to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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":"<p>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":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/9RCMC9LOtROFqQ8MCgUF.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eKak-AO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2643,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions\/2643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}