Which statement is incorrect about the obligations placed by rights? |
Rights place obligations on the state to ensure sustainable development. Rights compel individuals to think only about their personal needs. Rights compel individuals to defend common goods that benefit everyone. Rights require actions to protect the environment for future generations. |
Rights compel individuals to think only about their personal needs. |
The correct answer is Option 2- Rights compel individuals to think only about their personal needs. Rights not only place obligations upon the state to act in a certain way — for instance, to ensure sustainable development — but they also place obligations upon each of us. Firstly, they compel us to think not just of our own personal needs and interests but to defend some things as being good for all of us. Protecting the ozone layer, minimising air and water pollution, maintaining the green cover by planting new trees and preventing cutting down of forests, maintaining the ecological balance, are things that are essential for all of us. They represent the ‘common-good’ that we must act to protect for ourselves as well as for the future generations who are entitled to inherit a safe and clean world without which they cannot lead a reasonably good life. |