Question

How can individual rights and the common good come into conflict?

Answer 1

Individual rights may conflict with common good when a person does something that hurts other people’s rights. Because of that, the Constitution does not guarantee absolute individual rights because absolute rights may hurt other people’s rights.

For example, people have the right to smoke, but they are banned from smoking in public buildings because it hurts nonsmokers rights.

Answer 2

Individual rights may obstruct justice in some ways by permitting a person to bargain for a crime committed. This may not be good for the common good.
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