Jack comments on Deontology for Consequentialists - Less Wrong

46 Post author: Alicorn 30 January 2010 05:58PM

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Comment author: Jack 04 February 2010 05:55:42AM 2 points [-]

So I think I have pretty good access to the concept of personhood but the existence of rights isn't obvious to me from that concept. Is there a particular feature of personhood that generates these rights?

Comment author: Alicorn 04 February 2010 02:09:28PM 1 point [-]

That's one of my not-finished things, is spelling out exactly why I think you get there from here.