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WHEN RIGHTS CONFLICT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 April 2002

Phillip Montague
Phillip Montague
Affiliation:
Western Washington University, Department of Philosophy
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Abstract

You and I are neighbors, with our houses situated closely together. You lead a group of rock musicians who can practice only in the evenings in your backyard; while I, on the other hand, enjoy nothing more than quiet evenings spent on my porch accompanied by the sounds of frogs and crickets. Presumably, you have a right to pursue your musical career, and I have a right quietly to enjoy my property. If we do indeed have these rights, however, then they seem to conflict with each other, in that your exercising your right is incompatible with my exercising mine.

Type
Research Article
Information
Legal Theory , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , September 2001 , pp. 257 - 277
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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