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Um, what? Block on "negative homesteading" and human shields

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Wheylous Posted: Tue, Oct 30 2012 7:20 PM

http://mises.org/journals/jls/22_1/22_1_30.pdf

He discusses negative homesteading of unhappiness. What in the world is this ephemeral thing?

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Anenome replied on Wed, Oct 31 2012 12:58 AM

It is a very weird concept where one like passes on bad emotions to another, I dunno, it was weird when I read about it and strikes me as a complete bastardization of the homesteading concept.

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h.k. replied on Wed, Oct 31 2012 1:47 AM

Wheylous:

http://mises.org/journals/jls/22_1/22_1_30.pdf

He discusses negative homesteading of unhappiness. What in the world is this ephemeral thing?

 

 

Block is trying to justify who has the right to survive, in a "Saw" (the stupid movie franchise) scenario.

 

So if a bunch of innocent people are together, who has negative homesteaded certain rights, etc.? This is what I gathered from a cursory reading of his work.

It sounds stupid, I'm not sure I agree.

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Wheylous replied on Wed, Oct 31 2012 9:08 AM

hk - I got that much, but I was just wondering at how one could even talk about unhomesteading unhappiness. It's even worse than the social contract.

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