> The basic principle is that your negative rights are a prohibition of what others can do to you. Agreed - rights that are guaranteed by prohibiting certain a

> The basic principle is that your negative rights are a prohibition of what others can do to you. Agreed - rights that are guaranteed by prohibiting certain actions, i.e. you have a right to $FOO, meaning that $BAR is prohibited. Compare with: > They conceptualize rights "negatively", as things the state shouldn't take away from you. The formulation seems a little different: you have a right to $FOO, meaning that $BAR is allowed ("the state shouldn't take [$BAR] away from you").