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Having a free shelter is fundamental to a person's freedom, arguing otherwise is immoral.
by TotalCrackpot 2y ago
Having a free shelter is fundamental to a person's freedom, arguing otherwise is immoral.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoAnd who has to build that shelter, and what about their freedom?
- TotalCrackpot 2y agoNo one has to build that shelter, no one should be coerced to that.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoSo nobody is forced to build shelter, but if someone does build one for themselves, it can be taken? Just trying to understand how this right to shelter works.
- TotalCrackpot 2y agoIt's crucial to understand that if we let a person that build a shelter keep it for eternity then that person can build many shelters such that there will be no land left for other people to build their shelters on.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoIndeed. This is why in a society free from theft, one must build or make something for exchange to get things you want. I don't see why buying two plots and building two houses entitles someone else to one of them.
- TotalCrackpot 2y agoI don't agree with the notion of buying a plot. No one should ever have to pay for an empty plot of land.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoOK, so you dont buy the plot and just build two houses on them. How does that change your logic.
- TotalCrackpot 2y agoHow do you deal with a situation where some people don't have any land anymore to put their houses there?
- s1artibartfast 2y agoThey make something they can trade, or go somewhere where there is land.
- TotalCrackpot 2y agoHow they can make something they can trade, if they have no land on which they can make it? Where can they go, if private property exists in most of the world?
- s1artibartfast 2y agoYou make things that don't need land, like 99% of humans on the planet. AKA get a job. There's no free land, but there is cheap land, especially in deserts. Simply owning land might not be as nice as you imagine
- carapace 2y ago> And who has to build that shelter Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter https://www.habitat.org/carter-work-project https://www.habitat.org/carter-work-project > what about their freedom? I think they made good use of it. We in the USA are the wealthiest nation in the history of the world. We could solve homelessness and hunger tomorrow. I'm not saying that people should lose their property to squatters, that's not the solution. I'm saying that we could build ~300,000 new homes and give them to people for free and it would barely register on the national budget.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoYes, if you assume people won't destroy the free houses, I totally agree. I think it is remarkable that people argue for theft from others instead of donating their time, effort, or money to building those houses. The underlying hypocrisy is that most people argue that others should pay, but won't act individually on their own beliefs
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y agoThen everyone will go sleep in the street, in order to get a free house.
- lazyasciiart 2y agoNo, they won’t.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoWould you sleep in a tent for a year to get a million dollars? I already have a house and would still do it. Hell, I would do it for 10% of that. No job and drinking and camping for a year sounds like an epic vacation. Before you doubt me, I was certifiably homeless in San Francisco for 3 months it was a blast. Slept on couches everyday, worked cash jobs, and partied every night.
- logicchains 2y agoYou can't have a freedom that's conditional on somebody else's forced labour.
- TotalCrackpot 2y agoIt's not conditional of somebody else's forced labor, why do you think that?
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoEveryone is entitled to free shelter, but nobody is required to build them? Where do you think the free shelter is going to come from? Because, looking around, I don't see very many free shelters, so they're going to have to come from somewhere. And if your answer is to take all the existing houses and give them, one to each family that needs a place to stay, that's great in the short term. In the long term, though, who's going to build a new one when it will just be taken from them? And if nobody builds new ones, where are new ones going to come from, as the population continues to grow?
- TotalCrackpot 2y agoAt worst everyone should have an access to piece of land where they can build a shelter for themselves, or live in a yurt or an RV if they don't want to build the typical housing.
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y agoI actually lived in a country where everyone had a right for free shelter. It was called the USSR. The quality and quantity of said shelter was beyond abysmal. Several families sharing a single apartment, a family per room, was the norm. If anyone attempted to squatter anywhere, they would very quickly find themselves free sheltered in Gulag. If they were to argue for their rights against oppression and exploitation, like you do, they would be very quickly free sheltered in a mad house and injected with generous doses of haloperidol.
- TotalCrackpot 2y agoYeah, on the other hand you had Anarchist Catalonia or currently Zapatistas. In USA you had MK Ultra, where government experimented on people through for example drugging them and you have homelessness too. Moreover people who fought for liberation were diagnosed with schizophrenia.
- kjkjadksj 2y agoWhat is ironic is that I’ve people living like that in the US too. I once lived in a building with a lot of immigrants from different parts of the world. I once got a glance in a living room walking down the hall: two bunks in the living room dozens of people inside. Another apartment was a studio apartment shared by two guys whose main source of income seemed to be charging lime scooters in the apartment. They’d be hauling scooters in and out all day. So maybe things wouldn’t be that different at all for the poorest of this country but they’d not have the boot of monthly rent pinned on their neck.
- lazyasciiart 2y agoGood news - the US is interested in Part B, jail for squatting (including outdoors in a public place) but not Part A, because communism is terrible.