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I am debating a communist friend of mine on property rights. I explained to him in very general terms the libertarian theory of property rights. I basically said that each individual inherently owns himself, his faculties, and his actions. Therefore, each individual has a right acquire property previously...
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What are some of your best arguments to show mutualists that property rights shouldn't be lost without use? If someone uses a patch of land for farming, homesteading it as his, but doesn't use it after that, can it still be considered his? When do you considered something as abandoned, and up...
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I was having a discussion with someone today, and he presented me with an interesting hypothetical: imagine that I'm a fellow castaway on a desert island. And I happen to wash up on the side of the island that has the only source of clean water. I work to clear some branches away and claim the clean...
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I was talking to some Chinese friends today, friends with no education in economics, and asked them whether they needed planning permission from the local authorities for building on their property. They said they do, to which I responded that we also do in my country (Australia), and they were shocked...
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No, this is not at all what it means. Look, I don't really want to keep going in circles about this. There are not specific Native Americans making claims about specific plots of land. They are making general claims about general areas. As I said (and you didn't quote this section for some reason...
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I have spent some time thinking of what exactly makes someone own something, but I could not figure out an exact answer. "The labour theory of property" (I own something if I mix my labour with it) is often cited as a justification for ownership, but I have felt that it does not fully convince...
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Property is thought to be the back bone of Libertarianism, but it is not. Freedom is the back bone and its respect calls for better qualifiers to "property" then the dominate (and failing) conflations and confusion. ======================= I assert that: 1) Freedom is a social concept. It only...
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Hey everybody. I was in a discussion with somebody about property rights and the environment. I said that a system of enforced property rights would protect people from abuses. For example, if you own part of a river and Dow Chemical dumps chemicals into the river and pollutes your part of the waterway...
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hi, ive been following mises.org for awhile now. just now decided to post. im currently writing a case brief for a college class on this particular case. im jw what the opinion of the different members here on things such as the right to privacy, states rights, how can the 4th amendment be applied to...
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With real property rights, it would be impossible to obtain a compulsory purchase order. Therefore, would road and rail companies not encounter problems when trying to build new routes if the property owners refused to sell their property? How could this problem be solved?