Difference between revisions of "What Is Property?"
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For more on this subject see: [[Non-Aggression]] and [[Property Is Coercive]]. | For more on this subject see: [[Non-Aggression]] and [[Property Is Coercive]]. | ||
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| + | ==Isn't there a Natural Right to own property?== | ||
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| + | Natural rights are exactly as knowable as invisible pink unicorns: anybody can fantasize them any way they want. During the Enlightenment, when liberalism was invented, liberal natural rights were a propaganda tool used to undermine the equally fictitious natural rights of kings. But even among liberals there was no agreement about whether slaveholding was a natural right or not, because natural rights are really just words. Bentham famously dismissed the idea of natural rights as "nonsense on stilts". Unfortunately, most libertarians (including Nozick) start with this philosophical abomination rather than more factual alternatives. | ||
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| + | For more on natural rights, see: [[Natural Rights]] | ||
==What about Locke and Mixing of Labor?== | ==What about Locke and Mixing of Labor?== | ||
