[Osborn F Enready]

One doesn't necessarily have to ascribe to a "previous" theory to recognize natural rights.

I find a lot of good points in Hobbes theory, but it doesn't match my observation of natural rights, nor would I ascribe to it as doctrine.

My brief description of natural rights, as observed by nature.
(note, when saying "all people" below, I am talking about the natural form with exception to those born with mental or physical deficiency.)

(also note, I have done several compilations of this common sense theory, and this post contains none of my reference materials, its off the top of my head for point of expression.)

The natural right to self-ownership:
*All people are born with an ability for reason, and applying logic, therefore we have a right to self ownership based on free-will, and the historicly observed human nature of resistance to unjust authority.
The natural right to property:
*All people are born with a natural requirement of food and water and shelter for existence, therefore all people have the right to obtain property to the extent they can obtain and defend of free-will, legally or otherwise if law doesn't exist or refuses to recognize property.
The natural right to free-speech:
*All people are born with an ability to communicate, based on their ability to reason and convert it to action and or verbal communication of free-will, therefore all people have a right to free thought, free speech, free voluntary exchange of information.
The natural right to life, and its defense:
*All people are born "mortal", and all people quest to survive once birthed, as their very life depends on it through individual labor, therfore all people have a right to defense of that life, and the lives of their loved ones, by any means justifiable(equal and opposite) by tangible threat to life or liberty.
The natural right to free-will barter of labor:
*All people are born with an ability to labor, for ones own needs, or for others, therefore all people are born with a right to "free-will" barter their labor for self, goods, services or property.
The natural right to form,partake, or be seperate from free-will collectives:
*All people are born with both "collective and individual" tendencies, therefore all people have the right to create and attend "free-will" collectives or become individuals in the truest sense of the word, outside society or its privlidges, unaffected by society, based on their "means" to effect such with respect for equal right of their peers, and self, mutually.
The natural right to freedom of belief, bound by the natural world:
*All people are born into the natural world, limited by the natural world as we know it, as expressed in Sciences universal languages. Based on that, all people have the right to aspire to any religion, or lack of religion, should they so choose, realizing of course that the natural world dictates our laws on earth as far as natural man can observe, and it is only logical to assume that the common conclusion from nature and all observed and recorded forms of religion that, man, the individual, is responsible for their own choice to observe creation in their own way, and celebrate such in their own way, with equal respect to peers same common rights.
The natural right to privacy in person and property:
*All people are born with a necessity of privacy, to indvidually different levels of discretion, therefore all people are born with a right to privacy in property and person to the effect their means can provide, as well as to the effect they defend, regardless of laws of society.
The natural right to life once birthed:
*All people are born individuals, once seperated from mother at birth.


These are all of the top of my head, and not all inclusive, but clearly common sense in my opinion.