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On Rights vs. Privileges

  • Writer: Bradford Glass
    Bradford Glass
  • Aug 30, 2016
  • 1 min read

Society’s lessons tell us we have many rights. We probably do. Yet personal experience suggests seeing them as rights invites trouble. Believing we have rights often leads to a sense of entitlement, which puts the rights of others at risk and can leave us arrogant. An alternative: what if we believed we had privileges instead? While likely not changing what we do each day, privileges lead us to see with gratitude, not entitlement.

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