In ancapistan, if you have no property, you have no rights
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...
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ReplyDeleteBut it's not a personality cult. Nope. Can't be. That's what people who vote for Obama are involved in.
Damn it - I should use the google machine before I post things like that: http://www.jailbreaktoys.com/The_Obama_Action_Figure_p/ob000.htm
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You looked, didn't you?
ReplyDeleteHopefully when he receives it he can shove it right in his... collection of cool action figures. Yeah! That's the ticket.
ReplyDeleteIt's all good. Daniel's still cool in my book, I just don't think that it is a good idea (in many cases) for he and I to discuss foreign policy and war. We're like fire and ice on such topics.
I imagine my conditions for talking civilly about war are much the same as yours, Joseph.
ReplyDeleteWe both hold our positions because we don't like aggression, and neither of us appreciates the insinuation that we are pro-aggression. Right?