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A right, even and especially a positive right, is strictly always a curtailment of some form of freedom. The "right to life" means that no one has the freedom t
by Der_Einzige 7y ago
A right, even and especially a positive right, is strictly always a curtailment of some form of freedom. The "right to life" means that no one has the freedom to kill you arbitrarily. The right to health care means that the market is not free to deny you health care. The right to freedom of religion means that the religious must make do without your religious donation.
The NAP is literally impossible to not break over even the most trivial of things and if you seriously believe in it or similar you're far more ignorant than the person you accuse.
- the_watcher 7y agoFreedom of religion (at least in the US constitutional sense) is a negative right in that it obliges inaction (Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof). Did you mean to imply it was a positive right? Miranda rights are positive rights (you have the right to). Much of the Constitutional rights are negative (shall not infringe on...)