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A second helping hand of Socratic seminar

What is a right?
- privilege
- power

• Any time someone has a right another person has an obligation.
 Ex: A pedestrian has the right to use the crosswalk but the driver has the obligation to stop and let them cross.

• Argument is a search for truth.

- arguments occur because one of the two sides want to be right so they are arguing back and forth trying to figure out who is right or the truth.

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