Discuss the relationship between rights and …

The relationship between Rights and Duties are:

1. The social interdependence of man results in the interlocking of rights and duties. As Mobhouse remarked, “Rights are what we expect from others and others from us”.
2. Rights imply duties. Both are complementary. The right of one is the duty of others and vice-versa. Gandhi once observed, “Begin with the charter of duties of man and promise the rights will follow as spring follows winter”.
3. Both become meaningless in the absence of the other. No person can enjoy rights in the absence of duties as a right without duty is nothing but shielded anarchism, ready to establish the idea of might is right. Similarly, duties without rights are nothing but glorified slavery.
4. Rights are used for the development of a man’s personality. But he is under an obligation to use them for social welfare. This means that the individual owes to society as much as he claims from it.