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Why America's obsession with rights is wrong

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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The American Approach to Rights Conflicts

This idea in legal context is different then the way that other countries like the us. You know, pure countries like canada or germany, do things. Can you walk me through the difference between the american approach to rights and what you see in other countries? Sure. I'm glad to mention the difference between thinking about this in moral terms and thinking about how legal systems approach this problem. i think that's very much at the quorter of the book which is not a claim about the kind of moral status of rights. It's really about what we should do in a political society in which there are people who disagree with one another in fundamental ways. And you need to have

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