4.3 — Rights in tension

• Understand that the hardest rights questions are rights-versus-rights, not rights-versus-wrongs.

• Work through classic tensions: freedom of expression vs dignity; security vs privacy; liberty vs public health.

• Be able to state an ethical criterion for deciding between competing rights. Why rights conflict. In a simple case, a right has one clear obligation-holder: the government refrains from interfering with your speech, and your right is respected. In harder cases, one person's right can come into conflict with another person's right, or with a legitimate collective interest. These are the cases that make rights reasoning difficult — and interesting. Freedom of expression vs dignity. Freedom of expression is a core right. But speech can also cause real harm — harassment, incitement