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    A Conservative's Thoughts on Rights and Duties, their Duality, and some Implications
    A Conservative's Thoughts on Rights and Duties, their Duality, and some Implications
    A Conservative's Thoughts on Rights and Duties, their Duality, and some Implications
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    A Conservative's Thoughts on Rights and Duties, their Duality, and some Implications

    By Eric Hines

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    In the author's first book, A Conservative's Manifesto, he touched peripherally on the relationship between rights and duties and what that relationship means for us as citizens.

    An understanding of individual rights and individual duties, especially their nature as individual endowments rather than as attributes of groups of men or as grants from some men acting in a "government's" name, forms a critical part of Conservative thought. Now, with us Americans broadly divided on what our rights and duties really are, or even whether the government should have them instead of us, is the time to expand on that peripheral discussion and to address the matter directly.

    My central thesis is this: our inalienable rights and our inalienable duties, as endowments from and by our Creator, and as duals of each other, are a part of the fabric of our existence—both as individual rights and duties and in the capacity of those duals. Further, just as importantly, our inalienable rights and our inalienable duties are in each of us as individuals; they are not in groups of us, they are not in the whole of us as a nation. Each one of us is possessed of them entirely in ourselves.

    Hence this pamphlet, which seeks to illustrate that and to offer some implications that proceed from that.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEric Hines
    Release dateMay 7, 2014
    ISBN9781311221155
    A Conservative's Thoughts on Rights and Duties, their Duality, and some Implications
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    Eric Hines

    The author is an Air Force veteran, Project Manager, and Systems Engineer living in North Texas. He is not a professional politician, but a reasonably well-educated citizen who has taken the time to study not just where we are, but where we came from and how we got here today. His principles are developed by a person more typical of today's American than the formally credentialed individuals who have spent their professional lives as members of a governing elite.

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      A Conservative's Thoughts on Rights and Duties, their Duality, and some Implications - Eric Hines

      A Conservative's Thoughts on Rights and Duties, their Duality, and Some Implications

      by

      Eric Hines

      Copyright © 2014

      Eric Hines

      All Rights Reserved

      Smashwords Edition

      Table of Contents

      Dedication

      Introduction

      I. Endowed Rights And Duties

      II. Derived Rights and Duties

      III. Duty toward Others

      IV. Claimed Civil Rights

      V. Implications

      VI. A Thought on Moral Relativism

      Endnotes

      Bibliography

      Dedication

      For my wife, who is my center.

      For my daughter and her husband, who must live with the failures of my generation and, hopefully, overcome them.

      For my grandchildren, who must live in the world their preceding, and overlapping, generations are building for them. May they correct our ills and make their world a better place for their children and grandchildren.

      Introduction

      There is ground for declaring that modern man has become a moral idiot.

      --Richard Weaver

      On matters relating to inherent rights and duties, most philosophers argue that our duties came first, with their satisfaction first creating, and then protecting, our rights. Most popular discussion, on the other hand, starts from the reverse: our rights create our duties. For the purposes of this pamphlet, my discussion of rights and duties, and of their duality, begins immediately after the point where rights and duties already exist.

      This point of departure is deliberate. I want to explore our understanding of inherent rights and inherent duties as they exist, and so without regard for their origin. This discussion necessarily will also encompass a pairing that exists between rights and duties. This pairing, in fact, occurs in such a way that neither rights nor duties can exist one without the other: they are the two sides of the same coin, they are the two poles of a dipole: they are duals of each other. Following this exploration, I'll go into some implications all of this presents for us and for our country.

      Why does this discussion even matter?

      I touched on rights and duties and their duality in my book A Conservative's Manifesto, but only tangentially to a larger discussion of Conservative principles. More than that, though, an understanding of individual rights and individual duties, especially their nature as individual endowments rather than as attributes of groups of men or as grants from some men acting in a government's name, forms a critical part of Conservative thought. Now, with us Americans broadly divided on what our rights and duties really are, or even whether the government should have them instead of us, is the time to expand on that peripheral discussion and to address the matter directly.

      My central thesis is this: our inalienable rights and our inalienable duties, as endowments from and by our Creator, and as duals of each other, are a part of the fabric of our existence--both as individual rights and duties and in the capacity of those duals. Further, just as importantly, our inalienable rights and our inalienable duties are in each of us as individuals; they are not in groups of us, they are not in the whole of us as a nation. Each one of us is possessed of them entirely in ourselves.

      Hence this pamphlet, which seeks to illustrate that and to offer some implications that proceed from that.

      There are now a couple of housekeeping matters regarding terms of reference. First, I use natural rights and inalienable rights interchangeably. This is deliberate. Both with nature being God's creation and with the point of departure for my pamphlet being where it is, the philosopher's distinction between the two is not important. Thus, in my context, the two terms refer to the same thing: the suite of rights imbued in each of us solely as a result of our existence as the product of our Creator.

      Second, there is a distinction between rights and freedoms (and between duties and obligations) that also matters to philosophers. However, I will tend to use these terms interchangeably, also: in

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