A right is a moral or legal entitlement to have or to do something (Oxford University Press, 2014). It is something that someone is due.
Everyone is born with a group of rights. Rights are classified into two: positive law that is based on agreements, treaties and promises, and legislated laws; and natural law that is based on human nature and one's relationship such as the right to life, right to liberty, and for parents, the right to be honored and respected).
Going back to the question above, we can not say that to remain ignorant is a right because it is our right at the moment we were borne to be educated. To be educated is to gain information that is vital to our decision-making.
The more we are educated (to the truth), we more we are capable to make sound judgments and decisions. The more we are educated (to the truth), the freer we are.
Although we are all free, there are rights to be respected and given to individuals to whom it is due. As St. Tomas Aquinas said, "If one man has a right, then other men have the obligation to uphold that right." To quote Voltaire, "The right to swing my arm ends where your nose begins."
Everyone is born with a group of rights. Rights are classified into two: positive law that is based on agreements, treaties and promises, and legislated laws; and natural law that is based on human nature and one's relationship such as the right to life, right to liberty, and for parents, the right to be honored and respected).
Going back to the question above, we can not say that to remain ignorant is a right because it is our right at the moment we were borne to be educated. To be educated is to gain information that is vital to our decision-making.
The more we are educated (to the truth), we more we are capable to make sound judgments and decisions. The more we are educated (to the truth), the freer we are.
Although we are all free, there are rights to be respected and given to individuals to whom it is due. As St. Tomas Aquinas said, "If one man has a right, then other men have the obligation to uphold that right." To quote Voltaire, "The right to swing my arm ends where your nose begins."
