The last twelve months of doing battle with the MAI has got me thinking
about the notion of coroporate rights, responsibilities, etc.
What about this notion of rights for corporate bodies? If we can speak of
corporate (business) bodies having rights (i.e. "incorporated"), how does
this translate to ecosystems/ecological communities? Should only
individuals have rights? Is moral concern possible in the absence of
rights? (For instance, I understand that "rights" is an alien concept to
Buddhist thought) Just what the hell are rights anyway? Are they set in
stone, made by legal precedent? Are there different classes of rights? Do
rights necessarily imply responsibilities? Can we encode responsibilities
in law? What are the practical implications of all of this?
The ball is now firmly in your (collective;) court...
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Corey Watts
PGDipSc Student
Centre for Conservation Biology
University of Queensland
St Lucia, Qld, AUSTRALIA 4068
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Telephone: +61 7 3365 2475
Facsimile: +61 7 3365 1655
"Wings and feathers on the crying, mysterious Ages...
...all that is right, all that is good."
D.H. Lawrence, "The Wild Common."
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