Everyone must have enough to live on

Out of compassion we have duties towards strangers. Here you’ll read what these are, and how they also form a duty to redistribute.

You may have noticed that in the past episodes I have been working towards a conclusion:

• We have no innate rights, but moral duties.

• At least we have two innate moral duties: we must help people in dire need of death, and we must not use people merely as a means.

• (A good third candidate for a moral duty is that we should not force people to do something wi…