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I feel a little weird when people talk about 'rights' that require someone else doing something for us, like 'rights' that require someone else's labor to be fulfilled. I mostly feel my rights are to a *lack* of interference from others - e.g. a right to freely express.

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I have that same initial inclination but do feel like there are grey areas, just like you point out in your later tweet. I wonder if maybe that principle, the non-interference principle as it were, is a starting point but not the end point.

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I'd like non-interference to be placed as higher priority than it is, basically just weight the scales a bit differently when evaluating grey areas. There's probably good philosophical systems I'm not aware of for handling those grey areas with non-interference weighting.

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I'm inclined to think there should be fundamental rights, which are things you don't depend on others for, such as your speech, bodily autonomy, etc. Then there might be another set of rights that you get when you're in a society well enough off. Healthcare would be an example.