Individual rigth (From The Virtue of Selfishness). Capitalism: "The Unknow Ideal". -Ayn Rand-

A "rigth" is a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man´s freeedom of action in a social context. There is only one fundamental rigth (all the others are its consequences or carollaries): a man's rigth to his own life.

Life is a process of self-sustaining and salf-generated action; the rigth to life means the right tl engage in self-sustainig and self-genareted action - which means: the freedom to take all the actios required by the nature of a rational being for the support, the furtherance, the fulfillment and the enjoyment of his own life. ( Such is the meaning of the right to life, liberty, an the pusuit of happiness.)

The concept of a "right" pertains only to action - specifically, to freedom of action. It means freedom from physical compulsion, coercion or interference by other men.

Thus, for every individual, a rigth is the moral sanction of a posistive - of his freedom to act on his own judgment, for his own goals, by his own voluntrary, uncoerced choice. As to his neighbors, his rigth impose no obligations on them except of a negative kind: to abstain from violating his rights.

The rigth to life is the source of all rigth - and the rigth to property is their only implementation. Without property rigths, no other rigth are possible. Since man has to sustain his life. The man who prouces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.

Bear in mind that he right to property is a rigth to action, like all the others; it is bot the rigth to an object, but to the action and the consequences of producing or earning that object. It is not a guarantee thet he will own it if he earns it. It is the rigth to gain, to keep, to use and dispose of material values.

The concept of individual rigths is so new in human history that most men have not grasped it fully to his day. In accordance with the two theories of ethics, the mystical or the social, some men assert that rigths are a gift of God _ others, thart rigths are a gift of society. But, in fact, the source of rigths is man's nature.