Morality: Where do you get yours?

[Tiberius]

I think Golden Rule plus Negative Rights has a few issues, since the golden rule often infers many positive rights, and becomes a matter of personal preference on how far that is taken.

Right, which is why they are combined.

I defy anyone who claims purely negative rights to refuse care to an abandoned baby in the streets for instance because it has no positive right to be fed or housed.

I never claimed purely negative rights; I claimed negative rights combined with the golden rule.

Your moral principles tend to be therefore gradients of these rights, as I would also confer the right to aforementioned baby, for medical care and education.

I wouldn't call it a right, but I'd argue it was morally and ethically wrong to simply do nothing.

Even where we apply both golden and negative rights, I am deeply suspicious of someone who would not wish to be helped if they fell on hard times.

Suspicious yes, but I'm not going to argue with them if that is what they want. I would personally feel very bad if I had to beg someone for help. When I'm going through hard times, the only person I can truly rely on is myself.