On Rights vs. Privileges
- 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.