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Old 11-25-2007, 11:18 AM
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Default Re: A Critique of Rothbardian Natural Rights (sorta long)

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If property is theft, who is being robbed? And what are they being robbed OF, exactly?

[/ QUOTE ]If you had been reading your grandfathers more diligently, you'd know that everybody owns everything. Which is the same as saying that nobody owns anything. This is the original meaning behind terms such as "common", "commune", "communism".

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Wow, condescension ftw. I've read it. It's all a bunch of handwaving. If "everyone owns everything" then you've already got a concept of property. The people who claim property is theft are just generating slogans. They don't think property is theft, they think particular distributions of property are undesirable and use propaganda smear tactics in an attempt to appeal to emotion. That's what I was getting at with my mostly rhetorical question, though I was secretly hoping someone would take the bait.
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