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It's My Right: What Are Natural Rights and What Rights Do We Have? | Prof. Joseph Trabbic

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The Limits of Natural Rights

I don't see where that, um, argument can put any kind of limit on the restraint and natural rights. So what's the criterion for determining what the limits are? Well, is my claim to be exercising my natural right harmful to a natural good either for me or for another person?, he asks. "We have to consider what the, what the tell-offs, what the goal is," says Thomas Merton. 'There's nothing in there that says that something has to be a right with no conditions'

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