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It seems you're just confused on a basic level about how property works - property is coercion. It is literally the initiation of coercive violence on people wh

It seems you're just confused on a basic level about how property works - property is coercion. It is literally the initiation of coercive violence on people who enter certain areas or touch certain objects (or threats thereof). > ...for you to dictate ... that would be a hierarchy with you at the top ... your proposed authoritarian restructuring of society ... Quit trying to dictate the world to the rest of us Once again, you're confused on a basic level - what makes my proposed system more authoritarian than yours? You want property law enforced with one particular distribution, I want it enforced with another particular distribution. What makes my distribution authoritarian and yours not?

chordalkeyboard 6y ago
> It seems you're just confused on a basic level about how property works - property is coercion. No, property is a social construct that humans use to denote who has exclusive rights over the disposition of a thing. > It is literally the initiation of coercive violence on people who enter certain areas or touch certain objects (or threats thereof). No, property is literally a social construct that humans use to denote who has exclusive rights over the disposition of a thing. Coercion comes afterwards, when people seek to enforce this norm on people who dispute it. > Once again, you're confused on a basic level - what makes my proposed system more authoritarian than yours? The hierarchical nature of the relations. Your system has people who have the power to grant and confiscate all the property in society. Since property is the right to determine the disposition of a thing, your system results in the ruling class exerting property rights over everything. > You want property law enforced with one particular distribution False. I am not specifying the distribution that is enforced. > I want it enforced with another particular distribution. What makes my distribution authoritarian and yours not? You’re choosing the distribution that is enforced, whereas I’m advocating for a distribution that is collectively decided absent coercion. My distribution is the emergent result of repeated interaction under egalitarian social norms. Your distribution is a hierarchical imposition of your preferred distribution.
- djrobstep 6y ago
  > No, property is literally a social construct that humans use to denote who has exclusive rights over the disposition of a thing. Coercion comes afterwards, when people seek to enforce this norm on people who dispute it. Me: "Water is wet" You: "No, water is a type of matter. Wetness comes afterwards, when people touch it." You are being so pedantic and incoherent that you're "not even wrong". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong You're wasting both your and my time here if you cannot accept basic, obvious realities like the fact that property requires enforcement.
  - chordalkeyboard 6y ago
    > Me: "Water is wet" You: "No, water is a type of matter. Wetness comes afterwards, when people touch it." You: “water is hot because boiling it requires heating it up” Me: “there is water at many temperatures and not all of it is boiling” > You are being so pedantic and incoherent that you're "not even wrong". I’m sorry you think its pedantry to examine the literal facts of the issue under discussion. However there is a big difference between the idea of property and the means one chooses to enforce property norms on people who do not subscribe to them, and if you don’t see this (or fail to comprehend the significance) then I can understand why you’re confused. > You're wasting both your and my time here if you cannot accept basic, obvious realities like the fact that property requires enforcement. You’re wasting both your and my time here if you’re unable to question things you have taken for granted. If it’s so basic and obvious then demonstrate it, rather than arguing by assertion.
    - djrobstep 6y ago
      Name a property right that meaningfully exists absent enforcement or threats thereof. Give a single concrete example.
      - chordalkeyboard 6y ago
        Name a water molecule that can’t be boiled. Give me a single example.

chordalkeyboard 6y ago

> It seems you're just confused on a basic level about how property works - property is coercion. No, property is a social construct that humans use to denote who has exclusive rights over the disposition of a thing. > It is literally the initiation of coercive violence on people who enter certain areas or touch certain objects (or threats thereof). No, property is literally a social construct that humans use to denote who has exclusive rights over the disposition of a thing. Coercion comes afterwards, when people seek to enforce this norm on people who dispute it. > Once again, you're confused on a basic level - what makes my proposed system more authoritarian than yours? The hierarchical nature of the relations. Your system has people who have the power to grant and confiscate all the property in society. Since property is the right to determine the disposition of a thing, your system results in the ruling class exerting property rights over everything. > You want property law enforced with one particular distribution False. I am not specifying the distribution that is enforced. > I want it enforced with another particular distribution. What makes my distribution authoritarian and yours not? You’re choosing the distribution that is enforced, whereas I’m advocating for a distribution that is collectively decided absent coercion. My distribution is the emergent result of repeated interaction under egalitarian social norms. Your distribution is a hierarchical imposition of your preferred distribution.

djrobstep 6y ago
> No, property is literally a social construct that humans use to denote who has exclusive rights over the disposition of a thing. Coercion comes afterwards, when people seek to enforce this norm on people who dispute it. Me: "Water is wet" You: "No, water is a type of matter. Wetness comes afterwards, when people touch it." You are being so pedantic and incoherent that you're "not even wrong". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong You're wasting both your and my time here if you cannot accept basic, obvious realities like the fact that property requires enforcement.
- chordalkeyboard 6y ago
  > Me: "Water is wet" You: "No, water is a type of matter. Wetness comes afterwards, when people touch it." You: “water is hot because boiling it requires heating it up” Me: “there is water at many temperatures and not all of it is boiling” > You are being so pedantic and incoherent that you're "not even wrong". I’m sorry you think its pedantry to examine the literal facts of the issue under discussion. However there is a big difference between the idea of property and the means one chooses to enforce property norms on people who do not subscribe to them, and if you don’t see this (or fail to comprehend the significance) then I can understand why you’re confused. > You're wasting both your and my time here if you cannot accept basic, obvious realities like the fact that property requires enforcement. You’re wasting both your and my time here if you’re unable to question things you have taken for granted. If it’s so basic and obvious then demonstrate it, rather than arguing by assertion.
  - djrobstep 6y ago
    Name a property right that meaningfully exists absent enforcement or threats thereof. Give a single concrete example.
    - chordalkeyboard 6y ago
      Name a water molecule that can’t be boiled. Give me a single example.