Of course a government can grant privileges, but I don’t like the notion of positive rights. Of placing an obligation on others as being inherent. Because that would mean those rights aren’t inherent, in the natural state, you would be having those rights infringed by default.
That’s fair, I am against the right to arbitrarily claim property, but to not steal someone else’s shelter isn’t exactly placing an obligation on others.
Of course a government can grant privileges, but I don’t like the notion of positive rights. Of placing an obligation on others as being inherent. Because that would mean those rights aren’t inherent, in the natural state, you would be having those rights infringed by default.
Human society is pretty far removed from nature though. For example, are you against the right to own property ?
That’s fair, I am against the right to arbitrarily claim property, but to not steal someone else’s shelter isn’t exactly placing an obligation on others.
Where do you think every square inch of real estate came from?
I’m somewhere between John Locke and Henry George on land.