Difference between revisions of "The worthless Lockean Fable of Initial Acquisition"
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[[Category:The Lockean Fable of Initial Acquisition|100]] | [[Category:The Lockean Fable of Initial Acquisition|100]] | ||
{{DES | des = The ahistorical labor theory of property fails in many ways. Including ignoring the evidence in front of our noses.}} | {{DES | des = The ahistorical labor theory of property fails in many ways. Including ignoring the evidence in front of our noses.}} | ||
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=The parts of the fable.= | =The parts of the fable.= | ||
| − | I'm going to fisk John Locke. Not because it is a great way to argue, but because there are so many assumptions and fallacies packed into just a few sentences. | + | I'm going to fisk John Locke. Not because it is a great way to argue, but because there are so many frames, assumptions and fallacies packed into just a few sentences. |
== Though the earth, and all inferior creatures, be common to all men, == | == Though the earth, and all inferior creatures, be common to all men, == | ||
This is a religious belief, a particular interpretation of some sacred texts. It has no more force than a king's declaration that he is appointed by god to rule a land. | This is a religious belief, a particular interpretation of some sacred texts. It has no more force than a king's declaration that he is appointed by god to rule a land. | ||
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==Essentially all modern ownership of land is based on conquest.== | ==Essentially all modern ownership of land is based on conquest.== | ||
Go ahead: identify the original owners of land in any part of the US, and explain how their ownership was not by conquest. You can't even do it for the Native Americans, because they also fought wars of conquest amongst each other. There is no part of the world where ownership hasn't changed due to conquest except unowned international waters and perhaps Antarctica. | Go ahead: identify the original owners of land in any part of the US, and explain how their ownership was not by conquest. You can't even do it for the Native Americans, because they also fought wars of conquest amongst each other. There is no part of the world where ownership hasn't changed due to conquest except unowned international waters and perhaps Antarctica. | ||
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==What about homesteading?== | ==What about homesteading?== | ||
About the only claimed historical example of homesteading in the Lockean sense was Medieval Iceland: but they stole that land by expelling Irish Catholics who probably had stolen it from aboriginal inhabitants. | About the only claimed historical example of homesteading in the Lockean sense was Medieval Iceland: but they stole that land by expelling Irish Catholics who probably had stolen it from aboriginal inhabitants. | ||
