Natural rights are negative rights, that is the right to be left alone unless you have done something wrong. Positive rights rely on the right to coerce, for example the right to Government services.
John Locke, Second Treatise of Government: "No body could think himself injured by the drinking of another man, though he took a good draught, who had a whole river of the same water left him to quench his thirst."
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