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[kandrathe]

Thats all well and good up to the point where it has an effect on your neighbor. Would you support personal freedom if your neighbor decided to start burning his garbage up wind from you?

No of course not. If we go back to natural law, rights bestowed would not impinge on the freedoms of others, nor require others to supply them for you. Of course, if I feel that my neighbor is infringing on my freedom (polluting my air and shortening my life), then this is where , a friendly chat, or eventually if needed, laws and jurisprudence can help us resolve such issues. There are interesting questions about property rights that I'm not sure have been adequately resolved even now. If I buy a 5 acre lot, can I chop down every tree? How about 500,000 acres? We assume that land owner will be good stewards, and this is not always the case (e.g. strip mining). Which has required special conservation laws to place boundaries on land ownership to limit permanent ecological/ecosystem damage.

You have the right to life, the right to be free (e.g. not enslaved or indentured), and the right to pursue prosperity, but always within the limitation of the individual, and what they own. But, you don't have the "right" to live in a nice home, or get affordable health care, or get a quality education, or drive a car. You can aspire to those things, but they are not "rights" which should be a concern of government.