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“Rights are normative or ideal entities. A right is a properly conceived, on the one side, as a claim that a certain capacity to act, a power or way of acting should be engaged in- or could be without blame- and on the other, as the securing of this claimed way of acting to the right holder by the obligations and appropriate attendant actions of others.” [Simony and Weinstein, The New Liberalism (Cambridge University Press 2001) 56] There are two types of rights that are important in everyday decision making- Individual rights and Collective rights. Individual rights are rights regarding you, what you want. Whereas collective rights are rights for a larger group of people. In our everyday lives I am sure that we have been a part of individual groups and collective groups. Individual and collective rights have to do with a lot of important issues in society. Some include ideology, liberalism, individualism and community.
What is ideology? There are several definitions of what ...

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