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A rights-based framework is not the only way of making decisions in this world. It's one a lot of people who are fortunate enough to have attained success in l
by Eridrus 10y ago
A rights-based framework is not the only way of making decisions in this world.
It's one a lot of people who are fortunate enough to have attained success in life, or expect to in the future, subscribe to, but it's not the only way to see the world.
If you were to follow your reasoning through to it's extreme the same way your beer example does, you would probably need to give all of society's land back to the native populations, but I doubt you're rushing to do that, I'm sure you have some moral gymnastics that makes that fine, but anyone trying to make a claim to anything you see as yours is immoral.
While you certainly may have worked hard, and I have no desire to disincentivize hard work, our position in society at birth and even our genetics are probabilistic, so I find it hard to justify the idea that the fruits of your labour should be yours alone.
Private property is a useful concept, but it is also not a universal requirement for a society, nor is is a binary feature.