'What are Rights?' is the theme of this short chapter. For Nick, since justice is based on rights, it is important to define what rights are. But rights are of different sorts. But the point is that rights are normative social relationships. Meaning, rights are about normative relations which also says this is the way you ought to treat or this is the way I ought to treat you, and if you fail to treat me this way or vice versa, then you wrong me or vice versa.
Nick thus underscores that 'primary justice is present in society insofar as the members of society stand to one another in the normative social relationship of being treated as they have a right to be treated.'
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