The best example of negative vs postive rights.
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I don't understand the negative and positive labels.
These are terms the left uses. They think when you have rights to be free from government is negative. They think when the government has rights to impose things on you is positive. President Trump gave use a start example of what rights are and Biden gave use a great contrasts to those rights.
They are intellectual nonsense. Rights are rights.
On the left is an example of a ACTION that supports a HUMAN RIGHT (law that upholds rights). On the right-hand side is an example of an authoritarian action that impedes an individual's rights.
The essence of human rights are eternal and unmanifest, thus completely passive. ACTIONS cannot be, nor create or destroy RIGHTS -- but they can support or inhibit them!
Negative rights are inalienable rights: Freedom of speech etc
Positive rights are entitlements: "Right to earn a living wage", "Right to demand anti-racism at workplace" etc.
"Positive" rights are actually rights taken away from others in the guise of giving you rights.
In a very basic way: Negative Rights: you Allow people to do things. Positive Rights: you Force people to do things.
There are no legitimate Positive Rights, every single one of them is comparable to Slavery.