Tangential thought:
In Judaism,the highest form of charity is to help a person get a job.

Nevin C.In Western civilization birthright is a cultural and legalistic
concept.

You deny the existence of positive rights, and yet clearly believe that people are entitled to what they happen to possess. On what grounds do you justify this dubious metaphysical assertion? If you are right that “We are born with no inherent right to someone else’s water or food no matter how little we have or how much they have,” what makes you so sure that we are born with the inherent right to what we happen to come to possess? At one point you imply that “earning” one’s possessions is the criterion for being entitled to them, but many people’s possessions are not earned–they are inherited, or given as gifts, or perhaps taken through conquest–and the holding of possessions that are “earned” clearly depends on factors well beyond our control, such as our natural talents, position in society, and even physical attractiveness. How is that just? How does my happening to be a tall, handsome, son of a business owner entitle me to the money I get at a job I could never have gotten had I been the short, ugly, son of a carpenter? Why is the government taking my money and giving it to the carpenter’s son any more unjust than the government taking the money I stole from you and giving it back to you? There’s interference from the government either way, and if you believe that you have a right to get the money back in the latter case, you’re on shaky ground when you deny even the possibility of the carpenter’s son having a right to the businessman’s son’s money in the former. Don’t get me wrong: there are good prudential reasons for the government not to interfere too much in the distribution of wealth–the inevitable inefficiency and waste, the stifling of people’s incentives to earn wealth, etc.–but I don’t know how you can believe that the government has *no* responsibility to provide social services if you believe it does have a responsibility to protect people from theft, fraud, and the like.