Maximum rights, minimum duties

From the bestselling author of Stop Trusting the Government .

In this new book, Bruno Garschagen shows that Brazil has become a country where people believe they only have rights—and even more rights—but no duties or obligations. The book exposes the consequences of this idea—present in politics, universities, and the press—and the confusion that exists between rights and privileges.

The privileged group is broader than we usually think. It includes people who benefit because they are students, major businesspeople, students at federal universities, employees in private companies, LGBTTI individuals, members of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB), or criminals. There are striking examples of privileges and perks enjoyed by politicians and public officials from all three branches of government, but also by people who do not work for the state. The consequences are extremely harmful to society, including the erosion of individual responsibility, irresponsible behavior, the development of a servile mentality, the delegation of individual obligations to third parties, state paternalism, and the idea that others "owed me" something.