Are rights inalienable?
Rights are inalienable — within a man’s sphere of action they are absolute.2 By inalienable, I mean that they may not be alienated from the person who possesses them, i.e., they may not be given or taken away, i.e., they may not be morally infringed upon. For example, a man may violate your right to your property by taking it away from you, but your right to that property has not been alienated, i.e., you are in the right and the robber is in the wrong.
