The Importance of Rights

Sally Kohn: I thought your response was really interesting, quite powerful. So my concern here is that you're focusing on harm and not rights. Imagine that we could very accurately predict who is going to commit serious violent crimes in the future. We decide, okay, should we punish them beforehand? And we use exactly your reasoning verbatim. What kind of do I get all caught up in rights or truth? Come on, preventing harm here, we're highly accurate.Kohn: In general, we care about rights. We don't care about harm. But there are cases where the harm matters more than the rights.