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Sat. 12/06/09 19:46 EDT . post #166 [quote user="Aquila"] The state is just a homeowners association writ large[/quote] "Home ownership" ... isn't. Stop paying your property taxes, for example, and "your" property will be sold to someone else, without your permission...
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Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 I am an objectivist and hence my philosophical base is Individualism. Recently, one of my friend raised an issue on Mahatma Gandhi, by terming him as a Libertarian. I found it wrong and infact disturbing and I opposed him, but my friend stated that...
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Edit: I see all my points have been already stated in more or less the same words by the Anonymous Coward. :$ Failure to read the whole thread before posting -- loose one skill point. Okay, I think I see the problem everyone has with this; there's some inherent contradiction that need to be resolved...
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An attack upon Lockean right to absentee ownership. No. It is not mine, though I do think it is challenging. As for the original question about second homes, I think the basis of any property system must rest simply upon the right of human beings to engage in ongoing projects with material things. This...
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[quote user="Stratego"]Is ownership an inherent relationship between owner and owned, or does it require a social construct? [/quote] If by relationship you mean interpersonal relationship, and by social construct you mean the contratual agreement of a group of people, then no and no. Ownership...
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I've been wondering lately how the aviation sector would work in an anarcho-capitalist society, and how common rules regarding flying would develop and be adopted/enforced. I'm not concerned about things like airline safety etc. since this would obviously be solved through certificates and such...
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[quote user="allixpeeke"] [quote user="gethky"]2. Keepng or selling slaves does indeed involve coercion and is therefore immoral, but not necessarily criminal sans government.[/quote]If something is a violation of natural law, then it's naturally criminal, government or sans government...
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All right, here we go: 1. By merely releasing a slave without due process you run the risk of having the sherriff/bounty hunter return the slave and bill you for the bounty. 2. A criminal act is defined in law. There was such a thing as unwritten common law way back when, but nowadays all laws are written...
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[quote user="JonBostwick"]"Owned" and "common" do not mix. To own something is be able to determine its use.[/quote] Any item or entitity can have single owners, as well as more then one owner. One would actually have to define who the owners are and what the terms of use...