Message from @Fitzydog

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2018-10-25 02:03:35 UTC  

Like I said, property rights could be seen as people with property wanting protection for their shit without them having to guard it 24/7

2018-10-25 02:03:58 UTC  

Thus making a law for it so that they can prosecute someone violating their property rights

2018-10-25 02:04:23 UTC  

No, not really at all

2018-10-25 02:05:05 UTC  

It's more like "What are some common denominators that are considered 'OK' for people to be violent over?"

2018-10-25 02:05:16 UTC  

Life, Liberty, Property

2018-10-25 02:05:56 UTC  

In any of those situations, the common person would be like "Oh, okay, I understand. Yeah, he's free to go."

2018-10-25 02:07:42 UTC  

So, in a sense, "natural rights" although existing in a hypothetical 'Natural stateless society' still presupposes that there *is indeed a society.*

2018-10-25 02:08:05 UTC  

Natural rights do not exist in a vacuum.

2018-10-25 02:08:21 UTC  

Yes, they need people and they need an organized society

2018-10-25 02:08:36 UTC  

Because if there are certain rights you need to be able to guarantee them

2018-10-25 02:08:48 UTC  

Not what I meant, tbh

2018-10-25 02:08:51 UTC  

And if there are certain laws you need to be able to enforce them

2018-10-25 02:10:10 UTC  

Let me rephrase: Natural rights presuppose that there is someone around to violate them in the first place.

2018-10-25 02:10:33 UTC  

There could be, but there is no guarantee that there is

2018-10-25 02:10:42 UTC  

Stop and rethink that

2018-10-25 02:11:10 UTC  

What I meant is that there is no absolute guarantee that there will be someone around to violate said rights

2018-10-25 02:11:18 UTC  

There very well could be though

2018-10-25 02:11:27 UTC  

okay, I feel like we're talking past each other here

2018-10-25 02:11:34 UTC  

Yeah same

2018-10-25 02:12:11 UTC  

My take on natural rights/laws is that for them to be natural, they need to be inherent to people

2018-10-25 02:12:11 UTC  

I'm supposing that you are the literal last man on earth.

You now have no need for natural rights, because there's no one to violate them.

2018-10-25 02:12:51 UTC  

That is a pretty solid statement, can’t argue with it

2018-10-25 02:13:36 UTC  

I think its an important place to start from

2018-10-25 02:13:49 UTC  

Add in a second person, and what happens?

2018-10-25 02:14:46 UTC  

The only reason you would ever defend yourself against them is for your life, liberty, or your property.

There's your natural rights. The mutually agreed upon reasons for instigating violence.

2018-10-25 02:15:06 UTC  

That is also true

2018-10-25 02:15:20 UTC  

But I just thought of something regarding the laws and rights situation

2018-10-25 02:15:36 UTC  

You would need at least 3 people for such systems to work

2018-10-25 02:16:19 UTC  

Since you have two people against each other, but you’d also need a neutral arbiter to break the stalemate

2018-10-25 02:16:27 UTC  

Why?

2018-10-25 02:17:24 UTC  

If we have two people in conflict over their natural rights, then the only solution would be for one of them to come out on top, thus having the other’s rights violated

2018-10-25 02:17:41 UTC  

The third person is there to guarantee that both individuals’ rights are respected

2018-10-25 02:17:59 UTC  

And that one does not infringe upon the right of the other

2018-10-25 02:18:50 UTC  

Why do you assume that coming out on top = violating someone else's rights?

2018-10-25 02:19:42 UTC  

(But, tbh, you do come up on the modern qualms with natural rights in that assesment.)

2018-10-25 02:20:05 UTC  

I’m trying to find the right words to phrase it

2018-10-25 02:20:37 UTC  

But let’s say we have two people quarreling over their property rights

2018-10-25 02:21:08 UTC  

This quarrel can be resolved in two ways, one is that either one of them wins the conflict and comes out on top

2018-10-25 02:21:45 UTC  

You're conflating two aspects of the violence into one thing called "conflict"

2018-10-25 02:21:55 UTC  

Offense/defense

2018-10-25 02:22:50 UTC  

Anyway, in this violent conflict, if one beats the other into a pulp and wins, it violated the other’s right to for example their own physical safety