Societies should only enforce negative rights

Societies should only enforce negative rights
Subjects
Governance	Morality
Rights
Linking arguments
Allowing same-sex couples to adopt infringes on the rights of their would-be children Children have the right to a mother and father Capitalism values what people truly want Governments should prohibit incestuous marriages Governments should recognize both opposite and same sex marriages

Note: "Negative rights" encompass only the right to be free of coercion, fraud and the threat of force in all things.

Supporting arguments

Enforcement of negative rights, and only negative rights, is necessary for the most effective form of societal organization, capitalism.  Related argument: Societies should practice capitalism.

The enforcement of positive rights requires resources, which can not be gathered without the use of taxation. Taxation violates the non-violence principle because it requires the threat of force to implement. Therefore, positive rights should not be enforced.

Negative rights are more important than positive rights, and the enforcement of positive rights requires the encroachment on the negative rights of others. Therefore, societies should seek to enforce only negative rights.

Negative rights protect people from force and fraud, and therefore should be enforced.

Opposing arguments

Societies should institute governments to enforce rules that are beneficial for the society as a whole but difficult or impossible to implement otherwise.  Related argument: Governments should perform certain functions.

Positive rights, such as the right to a free education and health, are also valuable, and without recognizing them, societies inevitably fail.