The human rights-duties equation: an enquiry into the conservation of morality and social action. 

By Jack Parsons

(1986/2002) 11pp. 

£2.50

A reprint of an article by Jack Parsons, originally published in New Humanist in 1986. This is an attempt – from a combined ethical/philosophical, and ethological perspective – to restore some sort of balance between the avalanche of literature and public demand for ever-more human rights, coupled with virtually zero acknowledgement of the obvious fact that no right can be actually enjoyed unless someone, somewhere, is discharging the duties necessary to make that right a reality.

Particular emphasis is placed on the need to counterbalance the ‘right to reproduce’ with the duty not to reproduce irresponsibly.

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