"A right is better characterized as freedom from or entitlement to something for no reason other than being."

Except that the two are at fundamental odds with one another. That we have delineated terms like positive and negative rights is one of the indications of this. One is passive, the other active. Insofar as it moves in one direction, ground is given up by the other.

I prefer a characterization which does not conflict on such a basic level.