December 2004 LSAT Section 2 Question 16

In practice the government will have the last word on what an individual's rights are, because its police will do wha...

Tejas on May 22, 2020

3rd sentence as conclusion

"anyone who thinks it is must believe that the government's view is a correct view have only such moral rights as the government chooses to grant, which means that they have no moral rights at all." I thought this was the conclusion, can anyone please explain?

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Emil-Kunkin on December 25 at 08:12PM

This statement supports the idea that the government cannot be the arbiter of rights, because if it were, then people would have no moral rights whatsoever. This supports the idea that government should and cannot be considered the ultimate arbiter of rights.