Adventures with Allie Rights, Rules, and Obligations

Rights, rules, and obligations. These are three words that have very diff erent defi nitions, but the past fi ve years or so they have been used interchangeably and I think it’s time we set the record straight a bit.

According to Oxford Dictionary, the term rights is defi ned as legal, social, or ethical principals of freedom or entitlement.

The term rules is defi ned as a set of explicit regulation…