Sounds like you are talking about the difference between positive and negative rights. Righfull Liberty, the right to be left alone, which the government claims you don’t have, vs the right to force someone to give you something that they produced, free medical care, etc. which the government claims you do have.
Walter Williams talks a lot about this subject.
Yes, I suspected that this ground had been explored by minds much greater than mine, and if so, let me know so that I can defer to them and put my reinvention efforts to bed. I just have never heard this take on the issue of rights, so I wanted to try to develop it.