Thursday, August 4, 2011

Duty or Rights: The fork in the American road.

Jeffrey, thank you for the excellenbt application of the two theories for this case to this case! Your comment below jumped out at your humble servant here:

"Many people today expect for things to just be handed to them, in life and in their career."

Our society is degenerate, which means, it has declined from its former standard or standards. Your observation above confirms what your humble servant here experiences also.

Duty says there is something bigger than me, you. It asks us to put into the equation. Rights on the other hand focus on what we get, entitlement, take from the equation. Rights without duties will desstroy us, as it surely is right now. As the Ancient Chinese Taoists observed over 2,000 years ago, a society focused on rights will destroy itself. We are watching this process right now; there may be no changing course now.

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