Have you ever allied yourself with minority political positions? Does that bother you, or temper your assertions?
Perhaps I should clarify my statement; “property rights” are not inherent in that if you go looking for them in nature, you will not find them. Outside of human society, this concept does not exist. Respect for property rights is an artifact of human culture, created by evolution’s whims, and enforced by governments—just like prohibitions on murder or any other moral stance.
To consider property rights as any more inherent than other moral concepts is to veer into gross moral realism.
ETA: note: I am a moral realist.
Uhm. I’m somewhat at a loss as to how you can spend as much time as you have on OB/LW and still hold this position.
I believe you’ve allied yourself with a minority in American legal discourse. And against a significant portion of political philosophers.
I don’t know if this fact should bother you. But it might temper that sort of bald assertion.
ETA: note: I am a moral realist.
Have you ever allied yourself with minority political positions? Does that bother you, or temper your assertions?
Perhaps I should clarify my statement; “property rights” are not inherent in that if you go looking for them in nature, you will not find them. Outside of human society, this concept does not exist. Respect for property rights is an artifact of human culture, created by evolution’s whims, and enforced by governments—just like prohibitions on murder or any other moral stance.
To consider property rights as any more inherent than other moral concepts is to veer into gross moral realism.
Uhm. I’m somewhat at a loss as to how you can spend as much time as you have on OB/LW and still hold this position.
I’m not sure what else to say to at this point.