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I've read these, at your request, and I don't think that they'll find them any more satisfying than I did.
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You could also read John Locke, Peter McWilliams, Thomas Jefferson, or any number of others who promote natural rights or you could just ask yourself who owns you.
Do you own yourself? If not, who owns you? When you own something it is yours to do with as you please. You don't require permission to do anything you choose with it. You can destroy it, give it away, or do something great with it. The choice is yours.
To say you don't own yourself is to say that others have more of a claim on your life than you do. If you say that you do not own yourself, you have no right to complain or resist if someone else enslaves you, beats you, takes your property, or even kills you. After all, if you don't own yourself, you don't own your mind so your not allowed to think for yourself. If you don't own your mouth, you may not speak freely. If you don't own your body, you may not procreate or do anything other than what your owner tells you to do. If you don't own yourself, you don't own your labor and you don't own the fruits of that labor.
You can't have it both ways. Either you own yourself or someone else does. If you own yourself, you own your body, mind, and labor and the fruit of that labor and nobody else has any claim to them. They are yours to do with as you please. This means you have rights. You can't own something if you don't have rights.
If you are still unsatisfied, you are beyond any help I can offer you and I'll just refuse to entertain any other absurd questions you may ask.