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You only "own" your home because the government itself creates a concept of property ownership and enforces it.
by nommm-nommm 10y ago
You only "own" your home because the government itself creates a concept of property ownership and enforces it.
- refurb 10y agoI would have to disagree with that. Sure the government enforces property right, but ownership can exist without the gov't.
- erikpukinskis 10y agoWhat is ownership without a government? Who issues and authenticates the deeds? What do private police do when someone calls them and asks them to remove you from "your" property.
- refurb 10y agoYou can enforce your own property rights. The best example is Somali. No gov't, but I wouldn't argue that people don't own things there.
- ubernostrum 10y agoHereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man... To this war of every man against every man, this also is consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice, have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law; where no law, no injustice. Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. Justice and injustice are none of the faculties neither of the body nor mind. If they were, they might be in a man that were alone in the world, as well as his senses and passions. They are qualities that relate to men in society, not in solitude. It is consequent also to the same condition that there be no propriety, no dominion, no mine and thine distinct; but only that to be every man's that he can get, and for so long as he can keep it. -- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Chapter XIII