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Because property rights are inextricably linked with human rights -- if you believe in human rights, you also have to believe in property rights. You can't have

• frgtpsswrdlame 9y ago
  There is no reason that human rights require property. Let's take free speech. Rothbard notes that: The human right of free speech is simply the property right to hire an assembly hall from the owners, or to own one oneself But property rights don't guarantee you an assembly hall, hired or owned. In fact property rights explicitly give the owners of an assembly hall the right to deny you. Okay, so you want to build one, well here too property rights give landowners the right to deny you access to any land. Timber and concrete companies can choose not to sell to you, the effect here is that, to you, property has simply granted the right to refusal, the right for others to refuse to allow you to speak. Without property rights, who can exclude you from the assembly hall? No one. In fact property rights here conflict with a right to free speech. Also can I take this as confirmation that we are moving on from coercion? That you agree that coercion is not, in itself, bad?