Ancaps often declare, "All rights are property rights." I was thinking about this the other day, in the context of running into libertarians online who insisted that libertarianism supports "the freedom of movement," and realized that this principle actually entails that people without property have no rights at all, let alone any right to "freedom of movement." Of course, immediately, any ancap readers still left here are going to say, "Wait a second! Everyone owns his own body! And so everyone at least has the right to not have his body interfered with." Well, that is true... except that in ancapistan, one has no right to any place to put that body, except if one owns property, or has the permission of at least one property owner to place that body on her land. So, if one is landless and penniless, one had sure better hope that there are kindly disposed property owners aligned in a corridor from wherever one happens to be to wherever the...
The two superpowers I still lack but want are:
ReplyDelete1) The ability to alleviate pain with a mere thought.
2) The power of Electric Boogaloo. This would be where I clap my hands and everyone within fifty yards of me begins to breakdance. I'm afraid that I would be too easily tempted into using this power for pure evil, but I have wanted it for a long time now.
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ReplyDeleteThe other day my kids were discussing which super powers they'd like to have, things like "Seeing through walls," or "Healing wounds with the mind." Then they asked me which one I'd choose. "That's easy," I said, "I'd like the power to get clothes clean and smelling fresh, while still leaving colors as bright as new."
I have three of the little joys.....
how about the invisible power....
I'd like to have the power to read the Wall Street Journal a few days before it's printed. I'd simply buy whatever other powers I wanted with my trading profits.
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