Duties Vs. Rights

Which ones are your favorite?

Duties(Responsibility / What you have to do)

Or

Rights (entitlement/ privilege / prerogative)

Asking for your rights

or

Dispensing your duties?

What I have Experienced?

1. If you deliver your duties well then every person or institution in the world will have to give you the rights you deserve.

2. Without duty there are no rights.

3. Duty always comes first.

4. The more you do the more you deserve.

Meaning of Duty

1. Is a term that conveys a sense of moral commitment or obligation to someone or something

2. Should result in action3. It is not a matter of passive feeling or mere recognition4. Recognize & commit your self to its fulfillment without

considering your own self-interest5. Does not Mean: Living a life of duty entirely precludes a

life of leisure; 6. However, its fulfillment generally involves some

sacrifice of immediate self-interest.

Meaning of Rights

1. Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement

2. They are fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people, according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory

3. Rights structure the form of governments, the content of laws, and the shape of morality as it is currently perceived

Duties can come from four different sources

1. As result of being human2. As a result of one's particular place in life

(one's family, one's country, one's job)3. As a result of one's character4. As a result of one's own moral expectations

for oneself

Types of Rights1. Natural rights

– Can't be taken away. E.g.. Right to life

2. Legal rights– based on a society's customs, laws, statutes or actions by legislatures. E.g.. Right to

Vote

3. A claim right– is a right which entails that another person has a duty to the right-holder. E.g. life,

liberty, and property

4. A liberty right– is simply a freedom or permission for the right-holder to do something, and there are

no obligations on other parties to do or not do anything. E.g. a person has a liberty right to walk down a sidewalk and can decide freely whether or not to do so

Today we will see…What are our Civic Duties…?

Civic duty

Something owed to one’s country (patriotism), or to one's homeland or community

Examples of Civic Duties

Providing right of way to public utilities over your property

Cleaning up after your dog on its walks on streets and not peeing in public

Returning books borrowed from public libraries in time

Staying at home if down with flu & Reporting contagious illnesses

Turning taps or switching lights off, when not in use

Reading newspapers, Keeping track of current issues on the TV, watching films which ‘enrich’

Voting in or Standing for elections, and keeping a tab on the past and present track record of those elected

Filling right to information applications to keep a tab on goings on

Paying taxes and Investing capital

Not to Hoard Too Much

Not to overexploit Natural Resources

Following Queues Always…

Always flush Toilet after use

स्वच्छता राखा 

Volunteering, Transferring Skills & Sharing

Choosing Entrepreneurship over Employment

Remembering to donate blood

Gathering all waste

Notifying marriages, births and deaths

Bring up civic issues of common interest with people around

A Presentation byRtn. Amit Gopal Chauhan

Rotary Club of Kalyan, RI District: 3140India

Cell: +919769442462Email: amit2462@hotmail.com