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> All rights - everything a society does - require contributions from others.

The concept of positive and negative rights is pretty well defined. If you are going to assert that all 'rights' are positive rights you need to do a tad bit more explaining.

> The premise that people somehow create wealth all by themselves and therefore have no obligation to share it is false.

You are throwing up a straw man. No one asserts that wealth is created 'all by themselves' at least according to the definition you seem to be using. It is also difficult to know what 'obligation to share' means. Does that mean "obligated to pay my taxes" or does it mean "obligated to support arbitrary redistribution schemes and government policies" or does it mean something else?




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