Eugine_Nier comments on A Rationalist's Account of Objectification? - Less Wrong

43 Post author: lukeprog 19 March 2011 11:10PM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 20 March 2011 05:07:35AM 1 point [-]

The conventional name for the concept FAWS described above is 'rights'.

Comment author: Raemon 20 March 2011 05:26:01AM *  2 points [-]

I think there's a distinction. I have the right to vote. If I were black, living in particular areas or time periods, I might still have to worry about whether that right will end up mattering in the real world. I guess I'd say that "privilege" is the word for rights that are not fairly implemented in practice.

(though I don't actually believe in 'rights' as something that exists in the abstract. They're conventions we use because people collectively prefer to have them.)