...Hmmmmmm. I would say they are binary and always yoked, even if uneasily so! One long-time jurist had a pithy response in one instance; freedom of speech has an attached responsibility of not "falsely shouting fire in a crowded theatre". Here's another of my favourites. I'm for freedom of religion, so long as you're responsible enough not to insist I must bend a knee to your damned foolish one. I could go on.....but the 'right' to a domain name instituted in a commons surely does have responsibilities! At least, in the public interest. -Carlton ============================== Carlton A Samuels Mobile: 876-818-1799 *Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround* ============================= On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Avri Doria <avri@acm.org> wrote:
On 04-Jul-14 10:42, Carlton Samuels wrote:
Rights and responsibilities must be in balance.
I know where the fundamental rights are defined. I do not know where the fundamental responsibilities are defined. The only responsibilities I know of are the ones the States have taken on to defend people's rights.
People are forever coming up responsibilities with which to counter rights, but they have never shown how these responsibilities were agreed upon or made binding.
What I do see is a need to balance rights, they are the foundation we need to build on.
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