"America was founded on the idea that human beings are born with natural rights, such as the rights to life, liberty and property. A person who holds this view of rights makes no demands on others except that they respect those rights. Today, however, many Americans talk about rights to a college education, state of the art medical care and even birth control pills. These are rights understood as entitlements and a person who holds this view of rights, far from making no demands on other people, is making claims on other people’s money and resources. This understanding of rights not only sets citizens against each other, but it undermines the whole idea of natural rights."
http://blog.hillsdale.edu/online-courses/natural-rights-vs.-...
I like especially the "it undermines the whole idea of natural rights". Clearly people like me are the result of this undermining.
You are part of a lynch mob in the 30's. Your crime of murder is swept under the rug.
You live in Alabama in 1836. A man frees your slave, and you had to shoot him as he runs away. You are now out one slave (no murder, right?) and the man who freed him is in prison.
Laws change. Rights are inalienable.