Is it right to ignore human responsibilities?

A responsibility-based structure could serve as a touchstone and guide for your own behaviour and a reminder that many of your ‘rights’ have a societal cost that may impinge on the rest of us.  It also may serve as a reminder that many of these rights are also not enjoyed in vast areas of the globe. 

C.S Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity: “You cannot make men good by law: and without good men, you cannot have a good society”. We cannot make people good through a rights-based structure alone. Scotland, in particular, has tried this with limited success, given the increase in obesity and youth violence that are both now endemic. 

For society to really function correctly we need a partnership between both rights and responsibilities.