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 Are you offering Scheffler's argument as the basis of a natural right to whatever is necessary to live a meaningful life?I can't see how people could have such a right. Imagine that a bunch of people find themselves on a desert island. Are you suggesting that they automatically have a right to a variety of goods and services from each other? How can that be? Of course, they might agree to establish such a right. I have no problem with that. But Scheffler isn't taking about an agreement. Ann may reply that a right to whatever is necessary for a meaningful life is a positive right that should be enacted by government. My objection to that view is that it requires coercion. In other words, it is a positive right like that requires that we violate non-interference rights. |
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