[lit-ideas] Re: "A right and an obligation"
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 08:50:33 +0900
The phrase is an old one and makes perfect sense in the context in which it is
used, to encourage people to vote in democratic elections where they have a
right to vote but many people don't because (1) they don't think that their
vote will make a difference, (2) they dislike all the candidates, (3) they
think that the whole idea of democracy is a farce, etc. It asserts the value of
the right and the obligation to exercise it.
John
In Taiwan I studied magicians.
In Japan I joined the guild.
On 2013/04/07, at 8:20, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> One can have an obligation to do something and yet not do it. The definition
> of "obligation" may be the problem here...
>
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> On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I am recently hearing things such as: "We have a right and an obligation to
>> vote." Can something be both a right and an obligation ? It seems to me that
>> the concept of "right" entails a notion of choice (you can choose to do it
>> or not to do it) which the concept of obligation clearly does not. Any
>> opinions on this ?
>>
>> O.K.
>
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