Duty ethics and rights ethics are really just two different sides of the same coin.
Both of these theories achieve the same end: Individual persons must be respected, and actions are ethical that maintain this respect for the individual. In duty ethics, people have duties, an important one of which is to protect the rights of others. And in rights ethics, people have fundamental rights that others have duties to protect.
As with utilitarianism, there are problems with the duty and rights ethics theo- ries that must be considered. First the basic rights of one person (or group) may confl ict with the basic rights of another group. How do we decide whose rights have