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Best of: Why America's obsession with rights is wrong

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Are We Going to Have a More Proportional System?

Jamal Greene: Getting people to rethink jurisprudence in the way that you're talking about is difficult not just because of the entrenched nature of the legal academy resistance to change and so on. People's ideas of what rights they deserve, at least in the United States, are bound up with this kind of moral thinking," he says. Greene: Even if we recognize the importance of rights, but it can't be the case in a genuinely pluralistic society that everyone has absolute entitlements to the things that are important to them.

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