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Wrongs, Rights, And Third Parties, Nicholas Cornell
Wrongs, Rights, And Third Parties, Nicholas Cornell
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In philosophical and legal arguments, it is commonly assumed that a person is wronged only if that person has had a right violated. This assumption is often viewed almost as a necessary conceptual truth: to be wronged is to have one's right violated, and to have a right is to be one who stands to be wronged. I will argue that this assumption is incorrect—that having a right and standing to be wronged are distinct and separable moral phenomena.
My argument begins from cases in which third parties are affected by the violation of someone else's rights. I will introduce …