I mean I suppose you could have said something like "property rights are human rights" but then you'll just get the follow-up question "what is more important,

I mean I suppose you could have said something like "property rights are human rights" but then you'll just get the follow-up question "what is more important, the human rights that are property rights, or all other human rights?" That said, even if you take as a given that property rights enable those other rights (certainly a contentious claim), it still seems like you're missing the point of the question. If you value the right of a person not to be murdered, more than you value the right of a person to own a factory and to pay people to work in it, you should just say so.