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Essay / Human Rights Essay - 1117
Rights have been emphasized as fundamental elements of the social order of society. These are both moral and legal standards aimed at protecting people from various forms of abuse. The idea of human rights is often taken for granted. These human rights fall into two categories: legal and moral. When looking at rights, we need to ask whether we have rights, what those rights are, where they come from, what it means to have rights, and whether or not they are timeless or context-specific. In addition to this, there are two types of rights that will be examined in relation to gay rights and others in this essay, namely the utilitarian idea and the natural idea. Rights are generally taken for granted, particularly those of law. / moral variety. These legal rights refer to rights “that are necessarily enforceable because they exist in law” (Vincent, 2012: 136), these laws that govern us are also called “positive” rights. Moral rights are things that we think we can rightly claim, but which may or may not be guaranteed by law, because they are not all “codified in law” (Vincent, 2012: 136). Rights are further considered as “rights that belong to all human beings simply because they are human” (Nussbaum, 1997: 273), which is linked to natural rights because unlike those of a utilitarian type, the group does not prosper at the cost of the individual, simply because he has more followers. Furthermore, the question of who has rights has a constant impact on what it means to have rights, because the definition of it varies from person to person and from society to society. This issue is contested and debated because it tends to affect the unity of a nation, as seen in the case of gay rights activists and those in the middle of paper......all should be allowed to show affection as they please, because everyone has the right to autonomy in this area of life. Another example would be bonobo apes who share 98% of our DNA, live their lives using human mannerisms, and demonstrate affection to resolve disputes through homosexual and heterosexual contact. Which provides evolutionary evidence in favor of homosexuality through the application of natural rights. The debate between the utilitarian view of rights or the natural view of rights is one of many conundrums associated with rights, including: whether we have rights, what rights those rights are, where they come from, and whether they are or not timeless or context-specific. These impact both natural and utilitarian rights in the way they shape the human mind, our values, our morals and our ethics..