There are essentially two types of human rights, positive and negative.

Negative rights are such things as free speech and freedom of assembly.

These rights require nothing more from others than to refrain from interfering with your exercise of them.

Positive rights on the other hand are quite different.

The right to medical care for instance entails a cost and someone must bear the responsibility for covering that cost.

All positive rights are redistributive in nature and foist the costs involved onto others.

Positive rights are the foundation of any welfare state.

In their mature form these rights become the basis for Socialism and Communism.

'From those according to ability to those according to need.'