I’m working on a humanities discussion question and need a sample draft to help me study.
OK…the next section is on RIGHTS, both moral and natural. Here are a few questions to launch discussion:
1. In one of the slides, there’s a link to Cicero on natural rights. In YOUR OWN WORDS, summarize what you think he’s trying to say in that brief excerpt from De Officiis. United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
2. The UN Declaration on Human Rights (link: United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.) claims that all human beings have a human right to medical care. There is tremendous opposition, in the US, to government-sponsored or government-funded, healthcare. What gives? What are the arguments for and against universal health care?
3. One way to think of ‘natural law’ is to say “if it’s not done this way naturally, it’s wrong.” But chemotherapy and radiation (used to treat cancer) are not NATURAL in this sense. So, is it more natural to die from cancer, or to use human-developed technologies to cure it?
4. One of the fundamental rights often referenced is the right to have stuff: PROPERTY RIGHTS. Where do rights to property come from? What are the arguments for and against these rights?
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