UPSC Prelims 2016 · CSAT (Paper 2) · Q6

Comprehension

Medium · Crux of passage

Many religious traditions frame human relationships in terms of duties owed to others rather than rights held against them. Modern rights-based frameworks reverse this emphasis, prioritising individual entitlements. A just social order may need both registers held together, since duties without correlative rights risk enabling exploitation, while rights asserted without a sense of duty risk atomising the community that sustains them.

What is the crux of the passage given above?