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...
Good afternoon, Dr. C.
ReplyDeleteAre you done with Aquinas? I was looking forward to your liveblog. I have the book, but have not made much progress on it.
anti, I sure haven't. The problem is that the five books you see above are all work reading: I'm teaching from that macro textbook, reviewing Madison and Jefferson, using Pareto and Smith in my current research project, and I've just pledged myself to study Italian each day until I've mastered it.
ReplyDeleteSo I have had to put Aquinas down for the moment.
Slacker. :)
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