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Well, the idea of exclusive ownership of real property is a fiction maintained by governments. Do you want to get rid of that one, since it's arguably the "real
by ubernostrum 10y ago
Well, the idea of exclusive ownership of real property is a fiction maintained by governments. Do you want to get rid of that one, since it's arguably the "real" root of the problem?
- clarkmoody 10y agoProperty is a feature of natural law, which exists before government. But some governments encode the natural law into the legal framework. Well without property rights, the entire human race wouldn't have left the hunter-gatherer phase, so property is not the root of the problem.
- ubernostrum 10y ago"Natural law" is a fiction, as are any "natural rights" derived from it (and the concept of "natural rights" in general). Property is simply one of a collection of fictions we choose to enforce because the alternative is usually more miserable.