Right and Retributive Justice

A Right is generally conceived to be a simple property of its bearer.  However, what that property consists in is difficult to explain.  Instead, a Pragmatist analysis might be the essential one--a Right is a threat of punishment for interference with its bearer in some respect.  Accordingly, a Right is equivalent to a special case of Retributive Justice--the bearer existing in some way, in return for which they are not to be interfered with in some way.  For example, the standard concept of Natural Right is equivalent to the bearer existing as a human being, in return for which they are not to be interfered with in their pursuit of happiness.