That means they cannot be, not ever, abridged or tempered. More importantly, the collective has no rights other than those of its individual members. If you are going to accept the ethical system of altruism, you must hedge on your principles, i.e., you must not be extreme, to stay alive. But if you are an advocate of rational self-interest, reason and reality, then to hedge on your principles is a rejection of your means of survival and, therefore, deadly. The error lies in their shallow examination of their own example.
Government is force.
Man grants to government a monopoly on the use of retaliatory force to place the use of punitive force under objectively defined and delimited laws. Because government is force, no other functions are justified. There must be no alliance between government force and business trade. The first wipes out the latter. Liberals and even many conservatives today get confused on this issue.