oh yeah,
in some situations self-destruction might be a person's duty. But it's never a right. Rights are peculiar things, destructive in themselves to my mind, even as concepts. It encourages people to put themselves first, focus on the ego, "I have the right to this and that". Everybody having the right to everything, and nobody having the duty to provide it, will never get anywhere. It's ethical gridlock.

Whereas rights emerge naturally out of individuals' moral duties to each other. "I have a duty to feed the poor," and so, the poor effectively have the right to be fed.

Your duty is to make the world better, not simply avoid making it worse.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 15:29, archived)

I agree with this
rights are OK when used negatively to define a state's duties to its citizens, but not as a positive "thing" that people possess independently in and of themselves.
( Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 15:37, archived)