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    It is not the case that James Nickel and others argue that universal human rights must be enforceable against identifiable duty-bearers, yet the positive obligations entailed by a right to health lack determinate addressees.

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    • 1.Negative rights also involve positive duties: enforcing property rights requires police, courts, and infrastructure with multiple identifiable duty-bearers.
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    • 2.Distributed obligations can be legally enforceable: states bear primary duty to provide health systems; international bodies and corporations share secondary duties.
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    • 3.Indeterminacy of addressees reflects implementation difficulty, not conceptual incoherence; many enforceable rights have complex, multi-agent duty structures.
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    • 1.Rights require assignable responsibility; without identifiable duty-bearers, claims cannot be enforced or violations meaningfully adjudicated.
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    • 2.Health depends on diffuse social factors (nutrition, sanitation, education); no single agent can be held accountable for health outcomes.
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    • 3.Positive rights obligating resource distribution differ fundamentally from negative rights prohibiting interference, requiring stricter enforceability standards.
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