Government is the greatest violator of my negative rights though.

I think government and individual rights are incompatible concepts. People only fail to see it because they have installed a lot of semantic stop signs along that path of questioning.

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I definitely agree that government is the greatest violator of our negative rights. But isn't it because their mandate now goes beyond negative rights into "positive" rights?

It is because at its core government as we know it is without consent of the governed.

Definitely agree on that