I don't believe there are any natural, inherent, or "univeral" rights. There is no right of self-ownership. It's just a social construct, albeit a useful one for opposing authoritarianism and for facilitating liberty.
This eaglitarian notion of inherent, natural, universal rights that pertain to each person merely because they exist, especially the so-called right of self-ownership, cherished by romantics and moralists of all stripes, is the primary underpinning of the Georgist's theories. And well do I recognize that it is also the underpinning of most Libertarian thought and arguments.
But it is an artificially constructed notion. It is true only to the extent that we voluntarily subscribe to it. There is only nature. We are a part of it, just like every nutria, amoeba, or broccoli. The fact that we exist in the natural universe affords us an opportunity to survive. Not the right to survive, or to prosper, just an opportunity. Mere existence guarantees us nothing, grants us ownership of nothing, nor obligates nature or our fellow man to gift us with anything.
No one has the right to *be*, and therefore, no one has the right to *be* somewhere.
