 Critics have pointed out that if we have rights only because we need them for our survival and happiness, then we have no right to take actions that are contrary to our survival and happiness, such as blindly following a guru instead of thinking for ourselves, living off others because we prefer the life of a couch potato to fending for ourselves, wasting our property instead of using it wisely, or, most obviously, committing suicide (Mack 1984; Zwolinski 2019). Yet the freedom to do only that which is morally good or rational is no freedom. But there is another interpretation of the claim that “The right to life means…the freedom to take all the actions required by the nature of a rational being for the support, the furtherance, the fulfillment and the enjoyment of his own life.” What Rand is pointing out here is that we would not have rights if we did not need them for our survival and happiness (Badhwar 2017, Miller &amp; Mossoff 2019). This need (and the fact that we value our survival and happiness) is the source of rights. If by our very nature we didn’t care whether we lived or died, didn’t care about being forced by the government or other people to act in certain ways and not others, had no use for property, and couldn’t be bothered to think for ourselves, we would have no rights. It doesn’t follow, however, that we don’t have the right to act contrary to the requirements of our survival or happiness. As Rand says elsewhere: 