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Entry: The Wrongs of "Rights" Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_wrongs_of_rights#7137 Post contents: Thanks abelio Indeed, the appeal to tradition in itself is fraught with danger, because that may lead to the conservative version of multiculturalism and moral relativism. I do not know of a single conservative thinker who would damn the Spaniards for not respecting the Aztec traditions of human sacrifice and cannibalism. But it was truly their own traditions, born of their history, and binding their culture, and all other good things that tradition brings about. On the other hand, if we do not agree on the existence of rights, and let's later determine how they apply or their source, we may end up without a leg to stand on when we want to protest the persecution of Christians in a Muslim country (it is after all their traditional way of life), or more mundanely, when an interesting article gets spiked, as if the right to be published was an absolute one. Sent at: 2008 09 06