2007-03-11 15:07:34 · 6 answers · asked by bigma 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Personally, I believe that individual rights should always take precedence, unless they cause actual harm to others.
So, if you're talking about the right to set fires or injury people, the rights of the community to be stable are more important. Which is why those community rights are enacted into laws.
But if you're talking about the right to say things others don't like, or hold beliefs others don't share, or refuse to conform to common social behaviors -- the rights of the individual are paramount.
The only value of the community is to provide a framework within which people can be individuals. Without people, the community doesn't exist. But people can exist with a community.
2007-03-11 15:13:33 · answer #1 · answered by coragryph 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is an excellent question! I suppose it depends. Let's look no further than the Second Amendment, for example: According to the Second Amendment, everyone has the right to keep and bear arms. However, if a person were to take that right and decide to sit on his porch and start shooting randomly throughout his neighborhood, with disregard to who or what passes his line of sight, then the two conflict. He has a right to have the gun--just as we have a right to be kept safe from those that misuse that right.
I'll be thinking about this question for a long time. In the meantime, you're getting a star for it.
2007-03-11 15:53:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good Question. However on the legal stand point more information is needed. Is your constitutional rights being violated then the individual right should take precedence
2007-03-11 15:24:52 · answer #3 · answered by Paytair 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the guy's "rights", as defined by skill of regulation, have priority over an area, which has no "rights" consistent with se. if the guy is breaking the regulation, and is subsequently an "out-regulation", the community that created those regulations can ask the guy to evolve (or bypass away). however the guy's constitutional rights are INALIENABLE If the question is that the community is greater important than the guy, it is observed as FASCISM or COMMUNISM.
2017-01-04 08:21:20 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Governments have only the rights afforded to them in the Constitution. All other rights are reserved by the people.
As far your question, you have not given enough information.
2007-03-11 15:18:59 · answer #5 · answered by Vernon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the right of your heart to decide whats best in this horrible world we have created for ourselves
2007-03-11 15:11:04 · answer #6 · answered by jaykens 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋