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Natural rights should hold in simple and complex examples, without resorting to utilitarian arguments. > The income you and I have today is inextricably tied t
by clarkmoody 10y ago
Natural rights should hold in simple and complex examples, without resorting to utilitarian arguments.
> The income you and I have today is inextricably tied to the system of government, taxation, and trade that we are in.
Yes, that is our current context.
> You can't talk about holding one fixed and changing the other in any meaningful way.
Yes, the world is complex. I simply wish to see one with more voluntary interaction and less coercion. Too few hold liberty as a political value, settling for lesser subjective things such as "fairness."
- ska 10y agoI was using "complex" in a way that should have been made tighter. I meant that the issue of property itself is very complex, in a way that makes their clear definition as a right at the same level as "basic human rights" at best very difficult, which is why it has not been done successfully.
- aminok 10y agoThr currency you receive in private trade is unquestionably your own private property. The fact that income tax law requires you to surrender your privacy rights and disclose all of the transactions you engaged in in order to collect an income tax is an indication that the activity being taxed is private.