Message from @Muffin Man

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2018-04-17 13:39:01 UTC  

@Baraban i think its only technically your private property if its recognised as such by a state, otherwise someone more powerful could always just come and it take it from yo ass

2018-04-17 13:39:17 UTC  

exactly

2018-04-17 13:39:29 UTC  

rights dont just come out of no where

2018-04-17 13:39:34 UTC  

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2018-04-17 13:39:36 UTC  

and they need to be backed by something

2018-04-17 13:39:44 UTC  

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2018-04-17 13:39:47 UTC  

something being your property just means that you excercise power over it

2018-04-17 13:39:59 UTC  

you have no "right" to property, you only either have power over something or you do not

2018-04-17 13:40:24 UTC  

usually, this power is upheld by legal rights, not some sort of weird notion of natural rights that transcends law

2018-04-17 13:40:43 UTC  

Rights are there out nowhere, governments only exist to protect them, not grant them

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2018-04-17 13:41:09 UTC  

i think you dont have that right

2018-04-17 13:41:44 UTC  

governemts grant and protect rights

2018-04-17 13:41:54 UTC  

You mean you think I SHOULD'NT have that right, because right now I do have it

2018-04-17 13:41:57 UTC  

i think rights like freedom of speech are differnt to private property rights

2018-04-17 13:42:00 UTC  

thats why rights arent the same everywhere

2018-04-17 13:42:05 UTC  

No government don't grant rights

2018-04-17 13:42:15 UTC  

Only protect them or take them away

2018-04-17 13:42:25 UTC  

That's the whole concept of rights

2018-04-17 13:42:30 UTC  

you have property rights that are given to you by the government sure

2018-04-17 13:42:32 UTC  

Human rights at least

2018-04-17 13:42:41 UTC  

whats the difference between not taking away rights and granting them?

2018-04-17 13:42:57 UTC  

Protected by the government, not given by it

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2018-04-17 13:43:22 UTC  

There’s a big difference

2018-04-17 13:43:23 UTC  

but your idea of rights that exist outside of law seems so arbitrary

2018-04-17 13:43:40 UTC  

why do you have some sort of right, existing outside of laws, to excercise power over things

2018-04-17 13:43:46 UTC  

and what is the character of this right and why

2018-04-17 13:44:10 UTC  

What's the diffrence between giving you a couch and protecting a couch you already have from being stolen?

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2018-04-17 13:44:12 UTC  

please eleborate cause i cant tell if my rights are given to me or are just not being taken away

2018-04-17 13:44:16 UTC  

like do you believe you have some sort of natural right that transcends law to own land?

2018-04-17 13:44:56 UTC  

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2018-04-17 13:45:04 UTC  
2018-04-17 13:45:59 UTC  

yes

2018-04-17 13:47:04 UTC  

It's not natural, it's a principal. It's simply the most practical and efficent to run a society

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2018-04-17 13:51:20 UTC  

wait so do you think land ownership is different from other kinds of ownership or do you think this for all forms of ownership

2018-04-17 13:51:48 UTC  

Why do you think it should be diffrent?

2018-04-17 13:53:12 UTC  

Expecting logic from a commie

2018-04-17 13:53:17 UTC  

Have fun wasting your time

2018-04-17 13:54:56 UTC  

so is your argument that these "rights" that transcend law are just principles that are the most efficient way to run a society

2018-04-17 13:55:55 UTC  
2018-04-17 13:57:13 UTC  

They don't "transcend" law. The reason laws exist in the first place in to protect these rights

2018-04-17 13:57:54 UTC  

but what is the basis for these rights