Note that the traditional notions of “positive rights” or “positive liberties”—both of which refer to people’s opportunities—do not fit into this conception of rights. The concept of positive liberties is important, but it is already covered by the imperative to maximize sustainable growth. There is no need to double-count positive liberties, and in fact doing so would be a mistake.The result is that these negative rights, restrictive though they may be, represent a stripped-down set of bare-bones constraints, a series of injunctions about the impermissibility of various forms of murder,
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