Ethics and Values / Unit 4 Ethics 172 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Rights Objection
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The idea
The rights objection: summed welfare can outweigh one person's privacy or dignity, and a right that loses to a big enough sum was never a right.
In practice
If secretly streaming one tenant's apartment delights a million viewers, the arithmetic favors the feed. Her claim was supposed to be immune to arithmetic.
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