Quote (Skinned @ Feb 2 2014 02:13pm)
Primitive societies had no concept of rights. You haven't the slightest idea about the philosophy underpinning your movement, nor do you probably thing it is important.
Rights were new creations of the Enlightenment.
Without the state there is no such things as rights. There are no rights in a state of nature. You have no right to property because me or somebody else will just take it from you and that will just be it.
Lol, primitive societies having rights....is that in the newsletter too?
The government does all those terrible things on your behalf to maintain your coercively established high quality of living. You could at least be appreciative.
So before the enlightenment you are telling me no one owned anything and no one thought it was wrong to steal from others?
There also ARE several instances of property rights being observed in relatively primitive cultures or places where no overbearing coercive government is in control, such as native american tribes, the "wild" west, etc
The ~1500s+ are also pretty damn primitive compared to now.
Your rejection of rights is an interesting opinion. Unfortunately it seems to put you in the Nazi sympathizer camp.
Btw you are creating a false dichotomy. Its quite possible to have property rights without overbearing police state measures.
Even in the absence of government people would want their property and rights protected and would voluntarily employ means to do just that.
There is plenty of room for me to be critical of unsavory police practices without forfeiting property rights.
This post was edited by cambovenzi on Feb 3 2014 04:26am