When Appiah Says That Human Rights Are Best Thought of as "Side

question 61

Multiple Choice

When Appiah says that human rights are best thought of as "side constraints . . . on the achievement of social goods," he most nearly means that

• A) human rights do not really impose significant constraints on the achievement of social goods.
• B) a list of human rights specifies things that people may not do to one another, even if doing so would benefit society as a whole.
• C) human rights include both things that the no one may do to anyone else and things that the government must do to promote the social good.
• D) human rights are generally less important than socially good things such as adequate food, shelter, and education.

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