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Because your idea of said right is false, since it would empower theft as legitimate.
And yes, it is a negative right, that's the idea here. But you don't have the right to your own life, just the right to not be deprived of it. The first part would create a positive right. If you compel any action of another, it's not a right.
That's a distinction without a difference. If I have the right to not be deprived of life without due process, I have the right to life.
You just said the same thing couched in new age bullshit.
But you don't. You have the right to not be unjustly deprived of your life. You don't have a right to survival at any cost.
Those are meaningful differences. Claiming you have a right to be alive places a burden of action on others, making it a so called positive right, ie not a right at all.
No it doesn't. Having the right to make a living doesn't mean you can violate others property rights any more than the absolute law of self defense gives you the right to murder someone.