8.1 aj Write a response in your opinion to the folowing passage Rights and oblig

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8.1 aj

Write a response in your opinion to the folowing passage

Rights and obligations are, respectively, what entitlements and what responsibilities that one has in his/her society. “Rights dominate modern understandings of what actions are permissible and which institutions are just. Rights structure the form of governments, the content of laws, and the shape of morality as it is currently perceived.” (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2015). Political, economic and social rights are those rights that apply to those realms; for example, political rights are those entitlements that an individual has with respect to voting.

Social Contract Theory is the belief that society can be maintained when the individuals in a society commit themself to a contract or agreement that involves the rights of everyone in the society. Typically this contract involves ethics, morals and laws and which are used and agreed upon in order to maintain order, respect and justice in a society (Ethics Unwrapped, 2018). With this in mind Social Contract Theory suggest that by formulating and promoting agreed upon ethics, morals and laws the political, economic and social rights and obligations can be preserved. We see some evidences that Social Contract Theory can work in the U.S. with the Declaration of Independence - a social contract that was accepted by the American people at its inception and continues to be accepted today.

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In social contract theory, the scope or breadth of the contract is not clear, but it usually appears to be thought of as over-arching. Although a social contract that was accepted by people at its inception and can continue to be accepted today, social contract theory is not experimental or predictive. It cannot also predict moral revolutions. Why, for example, when something such as slavery is institutionalized, would it at some point ever get abolished?

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