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The rest is losing the distinction between positive and negative rights, imposing a passive and often easily avoidable obligation on others versus imposing an active and often unavoidable obligation on others. We also tend to find new rights that suit our current, immediate needs and dispose of other, older rights that we personally don't value.
So we have people saying that their right not to hear something is much more important than the right of others to speak. Their right not to be offended is greater than freedom of assembly. Their right to services is greater than the right to freedom of religion (here shown as "freedom to worship in private so that it doesn't affect me"
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I saw a sign in a school recently that bothered me. In the very narrow context of the school, it's only partly true; outside the school, not so much. And the way it was presented it was mis-education: "You have the right to be heard and the obligation to listen to others." That's not freedom of speech, that's the right to impose speech on others.
