Political Theory

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

Wheylous — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:08:15 GMT

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.

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

h.k. — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:47:05 GMT

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.

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

Anenome — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 06:58:18 GMT

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.

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

Wheylous — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 01:20:21 GMT

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?