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Essay / Cart Case Study - 1060
Quinn mentions two rights: negative and positive. In the first case, “negative rights are claim rights against intervention, interference, aggression, aggression, etc. harmful” (Quinn 306). “Positive rights, on the other hand, are claims to help or support” (Quinn 306). Negative action comes from negative rights and positive action comes from positive rights. This means that in “Transplantation,” the positive rights of five people to be saved by organ transplantation compare to the negative rights of one healthy person not to be killed by organ harvesting. In general, negative rights are morally stronger than positive rights. The reason is that negative rights are closely related to the moral sense in which our lives are ours. This is not to say that positive rights are not important, but negative rights are more essential to our overall moral sense than positive rights. Therefore, we are not allowed to harvest the organs of a healthy person in order to save the lives of five people, because this choice arises from a positive decision.