What are "rights"? in what logical relation do rights stand to obligations? and, why are persons, in the specifically moral sense of that term, the only beings to have moral rights (non-persons could of course have legal rights, but i do not have any interest in hearing about that)? [do not waste time with the non-moral senses of "person".]

Why would nations in latin america be part of a mostly arab cartel group known as opec? a) latin america refused to do business with countries that were not part of opec. eliminate b) natural resources such as oil are a major economic development for some latin american countries. c) latin america has a long history of distrust of the united states and fears a take-over of oil fields. d) latin american nations such as venezuela needed in getting natural resources to other parts of the world. 15