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>Your comment on theft is spot on. The entire system starts and ends at strong rule of law coupled with a strong societal contract with private property. Agree
by TMWNN 2y ago
>Your comment on theft is spot on. The entire system starts and ends at strong rule of law coupled with a strong societal contract with private property.
Agreed. Yesterday I saw the question posed: "What is more important, property rights or human rights?" I decided that property rights is more important because, as you said, strong rule of law gives people confidence in building a societal contract with others that includes things like freedom of speech. That's what happened in Western civilization.
- deciplex 2y agoI mean I suppose you could have said something like "property rights are human rights" but then you'll just get the follow-up question "what is more important, the human rights that are property rights, or all other human rights?" That said, even if you take as a given that property rights enable those other rights (certainly a contentious claim), it still seems like you're missing the point of the question. If you value the right of a person not to be murdered, more than you value the right of a person to own a factory and to pay people to work in it, you should just say so.