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Ok. We are going to forget, for a moment, that in different moments of history we found very different 'natural laws' argued as obvious. Who enforce the natura

Ok. We are going to forget, for a moment, that in different moments of history we found very different 'natural laws' argued as obvious. Who enforce the natural law, then, if not the state?

MR4D 10y ago
(I was trying to avoid getting drawn into a discussion about God). That's a great question. It could be the State. It could be others. The Bar Association enforces standards and behaviors on lawyers, and thereby your right to practice law. Cisco enforces standards on it's engineers (I'm thinking CCIE, etc), and the rights that go with that. Here's the rub, though. The State should be a mediator between two parties. If I say that you destroyed my yard, I should get recourse in front of an unbiased and uninterested 3rd party. It doesn't have to be the State. It could be anyone that we both agree is impartial.
- RobertoG 10y ago
  You are answering to who arbitrage a dispute, but who enforce the results?
  - MR4D 10y ago
    You originally asked where property rights come from. That's the question I was answering.
MR4D 10y ago
One thing I forgot - giving you rights is different from enforcing them. Obviously, the State can take away those rights. That's different from giving you rights. Same is true for anyone with a gun (equating death with losing all rights).