Rights

Rules about what no one may do to you without your agreement. They follow by logic from two things: agency, and the passive Golden Rule. They are not given by power-holders or votes; any agent who can reason can work them out. They apply the same way to everyone: if you claim a right, you must extend the same right to all agents like you. They describe what others must not do to you, not what they must give you. They matter only when someone might break them. Anyone who attacks another's rights cannot then hide behind their own. Any 'right' that needs someone to be forced into supplying it is not a right but power dressed up as one.