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Rights ethics holds that:

1. Only the majority's happiness matters
2. Engineers have no duties to the public
3. Rules should be ignored when inconvenient
4. People have fundamental moral rights that others have a duty to respect

Answer

D. People have fundamental moral rights that others have a duty to respect

Solution

Associated with John Locke; examples include rights to life, liberty and privacy.

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