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But that is the point. You don't have a natural right to do so. It is dependent on society recognizing those things as rights. Anything/everything you do affects others, even living. In living, you use resources that means less resources for others.
You're fundamentally incorrect. Human beings are productive (well, most of us anyway). We produce more than we consume.
It's no accident that as the world population has ballooned, so has our standard of living.
To think of the world in terms of finite resources to be shared among more and more people is flawed in that you don't consider the fact that production requires people