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Are they free to consume more and more limited resources in doing so without fairly compensating the body politic for that consumption?

Or, put more bluntly: why must I and my children pay for them?

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If they have proper right to those resources then they certainly can consume them however they want.

Beyond the basic rights afforded by civil society one has remarkably few rights without corresponding responsibilities. Consumption comes with a lot of them. How are you proposing to fairly and equitably address those while leaving a better world for our children?

Not sure what methodology you follow, but freedom means freedom. If I don't care to leave a better world than that's my right. It doesn't make me a good person but freedom is freedom.

So, to be clear, you don't subscribe to any social contract? None? You don't think there's any responsibility for one's externalities? None?

Because uh. That's literally sociopathic.

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