Obligation:
Something that a
moral agent
ought
or
ought not
to do.
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Positive obligations are those things you are obliged to pursue.
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Negative obligations are those things you are obliged to avoid.
Responsibilities: The obligations you have to others in the world.
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Positive responsibilities are those things you are normatively required to do for others.
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Negative responsibilities are those things that you are proscribed from doing to others.
Rights: The responsibilities that the rest of the world has to you.
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Positive rights are those things the world owes you.
(Examples of claimed positive rights include: the right to employment; the right to healthcare; the right to an education.)
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Negative rights are those things that all others must avoid doing to you.
(Examples of claimed negative rights include: freedom of speech; right to privacy; right to self-defense.)
[See more on RIGHTS]
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