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    Rights theory holds that rights established by society should be upheld and given highest priority. Rights are considered morally legitimate because they are endorsed by a large population. Additionally, individuals can grant rights to others if they have the ability and resources to do so. However, for rights theory to apply on a larger scale, a society must determine what rights it wants to protect for its citizens and what the goals and moral values of the society are. It requires being used in conjunction with another moral theory to consistently explain a society's objectives. For example, in America freedom of religion is protected as a right in the Constitution, upholding one of the Founding Fathers' goals.

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    Rights theory holds that rights established by society should be upheld and given highest priority. Rights are considered morally legitimate because they are endorsed by a large population. Additionally, individuals can grant rights to others if they have the ability and resources to do so. However, for rights theory to apply on a larger scale, a society must determine what rights it wants to protect for its citizens and what the goals and moral values of the society are. It requires being used in conjunction with another moral theory to consistently explain a society's objectives. For example, in America freedom of religion is protected as a right in the Constitution, upholding one of the Founding Fathers' goals.

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    Rights theory holds that rights established by society should be upheld and given highest priority. Rights are considered morally legitimate because they are endorsed by a large population. Additionally, individuals can grant rights to others if they have the ability and resources to do so. However, for rights theory to apply on a larger scale, a society must determine what rights it wants to protect for its citizens and what the goals and moral values of the society are. It requires being used in conjunction with another moral theory to consistently explain a society's objectives. For example, in America freedom of religion is protected as a right in the Constitution, upholding one of the Founding Fathers' goals.

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    Rights Theory

    Inmoral hypotheses dependent on rights, the rights set up by a general


    public are ensured and given the most elevated need. Rights are
    viewed as morally right and legitimate since an enormous populace
    underwrites them. People may likewise present rights to other people
    on the off chance that they have the capacity and assets to do as such.
    For instance, an individual may say that her companion may get her
    PC for the day. The companion who was enabled to get the PC
    presently has a privilege to the PC in the early evening. A significant
    intricacy of this hypothesis for a bigger scope is that one should
    interpret what the attributes of a privilege are in a general public. The
    general public needs to figure out what rights it needs to maintain and
    provide for its residents. All together for a general public to figure out
    what rights it needs to sanction, it should choose what the general
    public's objectives and moral needs are. Consequently, all together for
    the rights hypothesis to be valuable, it should be utilized related to
    another moral hypothesis that will reliably clarify the objectives of the
    general public.
    For instance in America individuals reserve the privilege to pick their
    religion since this privilege is maintained in the Constitution. One of
    the objectives of the Founding Fathers' of America was to maintain
    this privilege to opportunity of religion. Ideals
    The ethicalness moral hypothesis makes a decision about an
    individual by his/her character instead of by an activity that may go
    amiss from his/her ordinary conduct. It takes the individual's ethics,
    notoriety, and inspiration into account when rating a bizarre and
    unpredictable conduct that is con-sidered exploitative. For example, if
    an individual counterfeited an entry that was subsequently
    distinguished by a companion, the friend who realizes the individual
    well will comprehend the individual's character and will pass
    judgment on the companion appropriately. On the off chance that the
    plagiarizer ordinarily adheres to the principles and has great
    remaining among his partners, the companion who experiences the
    counterfeited section might have the option to pass judgment on his
    companion all the more permissively. Maybe the analyst had a late
    evening and essentially neglected to credit their source suitably.
    Alternately, an individual who has gained notoriety for scholarly
    wrongdoing is bound to be judged cruelly for counterfeiting due to
    his/her predictable past of deceptive conduct. One shortcoming of
    righteousness moral hypothesis is that it doesn't contemplate an
    individual's adjustment in moral character. For instance, a researcher
    who may have committed errors in the past may genuinely have a
    similar late night story as the researcher on favorable terms. Neither
    of these researchers purposefully copied, however the demonstration
    was as yet dedicated. Then again, an analyst may have an abrupt
    change from good to shameless character may go unseen until a lot of
    proof mounts facing him/her.

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