I'm a US citizen. I live in the US.
We have a document that lists the rights and it describes how the rights are not granted ... they are an attribute.
Yes, we do. That document does two things. Both of which are 100% subordinate to exactly what I said above.
First, it enumerates a small set of rights that the government is enjoined against interfering with. The constitution, however, has no power -- there's no constitutional punishment for congress making, and the legal system enforcing, violation of those rights. Which is one of the prime reasons why we have multiple laws that are fully realized interferences with the very rights specified in the document. The only way such interference can be prevented is if someone with power takes up the cause of defending them. This completely backs up the assertion you were responding to.
Second, constitution refers (vaguely) to other rights in the 9th amendment, stating that "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." This means that the various government bodies of lawmakers can make laws against exercise of those rights, whatever they may be, with impunity. And they do.
For instance, perhaps you might assert you have the right to walk outside naked. No one else is damaged by this; at worst, they might do damage to themselves because they have been conditioned to be neurotic, but that, of course, should not be your responsibility, any more than it should be your responsibility for walking by someone wearing a hat when said person is neurotic about hats.
Therefore, any infringement on a presumptive right to walk around outside naked should be construed as denial as defined in the ninth. But no one in power will defend this right (primarily because they are also neurotic, or catering to the neurotic, but I digress.) Consequently, it does not actually exist other than as a mental exercise or within very limited, generally quite private, circumstances. This is true for anything you can imagine that is not explicitly called out in the constitution.
Again, this precisely makes my point. When there are no powerful people backing a right up, then it's no more than an idea of no particular consequence unless one incorrectly assumes it is more than that, in which case, other people with power will show you the error of your ways, and you will indeed incur consequences. Not the ones you thought you should, either.
Bottom line: We have a document that talks big, but has no legal teeth. Without people who have, and are willing to use, the power to enforce the very rights that it lays out, and for that matter the ones that it does not, they simply do not exist in any objective sense. They're just concepts you are extremely ill-advised to rely on.