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Why America's obsession with rights is wrong

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Is There a Barrier to a More Proportional System?

Jama green talks about the distinction between legal and immoral thinking surrounding rights. He says that getting people to rethink jurisprudence is difficult, not just because of the intrenched nature of the legal academy. Green: This way of thinking about rights as these deep moral entitlements has been around for 50 or 60 years. But it can't be the case in a genuinely pluralistic society if every one has absolute entitlements - those things come into conflict with one another.

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