ABSTRACT
Jasay is a most precise thinker, and a most precise reader. The author remembers one of his comments on a passage that contained a sloppy use of the word "naturally". Interestingly, while Jasay painstakingly emphasizes that rights should not be confused with liberties and rightly blames the fashionable "rightism" talk of causing confusions. He is less rigid when it comes to the use of obligations: While rights as contractual rights, obligations can be either contractual or non-contractual. The two most remarkable aspects of Jasay's analysis of freedom are that he assumes freedom to have an enabling condition and that man's liberties are faculties that suppose to exist until proof is brought to the contrary. The status of freedom obligations is not comparable to the status of contractual obligations. Though it might be difficult in practical terms, universal individual contracting would be a way to give actions taken in freedom an additional status, namely that of rights.
