I think this separation doesn&#x27;t work, and you could trivially transform positive&#x2F;negative laws into their counterparts of opposite polarity. In a world of positive-rights-believers, you may believe in a right to food, but if everyone else believes in the right to keep their food (and property, in general), you&#x27;re still out of luck. As usual, the interesting things happen at the boundary between various people&#x27;s rights and wishes.