Joel Feinberg: The Nature and value of rights
February 22, 2010
In this particular chapter, Joel Feinberg talks about the nature and value of rights relating to the Nowheresville people and for me which should also relate to the people in the world or the people who live into the world today. As stated in the story, people who are in Nowheresville do not exemplify or does not have any rights at all which should be very unethical for me. I said that because relating from the previous topic which is happiness and virtue, how can one person or how can that person achieve happiness if he or she does not have any rights at all? How can one person live life to the fullest if he or she does not have rights? Am I right? For me, like here in the Philippines, once a person is born, he or she has rights already. The same thing should happen to Nowheresville. People should be equal. Another part of the story discussed was duty. Duty for me is an obligation which should be fulfilled. It should be fulfilled morally or correctly. My example for rights and duty is that when a person is studying in school, it is his or her duty to pay back his/her parents by giving good grades. It is his/her duty because their parents are paying for their education. It is their duty to study and at the same time they have the right to play, sleep and do what they want to do. For me, this makes a person equal.
