Abstract
Abstract §1. Welfare rights can, for our purposes, be understood as rights to particular things or services. They can be distinguished from both liberty rights which are rights to do certain things and property rights which are ownership rights in things. Redistributive measures by the state are sometimes held to be justified because individuals are said to have fundamental moral rights to welfare, not derived from other more fundamental moral rights or principles. This type of argument depends on the proposition that the statement of a particular welfare right is an intelligible way to begin a rights-based justification for state action. The purpose of this chapter is to cast some doubt on this proposition.
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