Defining Private Property

[Gogf]

From the start, T-Fish, people in this thread have been disagreeing on what "private property" actually is. So, no. I say private property is as I defined it earlier. In the past, private property was indeed obtained by force. Today, in the Free World, it's an (almost) entirely voluntary agreement by people who don't want to have a shooting war over said property.

Okay, this is wrong too. Our entire society today is predicated on the implicit understanding that laws will be enforced.

 

[Traitorfish]

Do you? What is a Lord and his Knights but people who took land and held it with their own power. What are Castles you always read about how a castle commanded a valley this was both militarily true and economically.

I observed in the very text that you quoted that violence can be systematically implicit without being present in any given instance, so I'm afraid that I don't really understand what you issue you take with my claims.

Yeah, sure, but anybody who has ever spent more than five minutes thinking about philosophy knows that the world can never come close to being based entirely on "voluntary agreement," so this seems like an incredibly silly metric upon which to construct your political theory.

BasketCase is the one claiming that we already live in that world, so go complain to him.

 

[ParkCungHee]

Yeah, sure, but anybody who has ever spent more than five minutes thinking about philosophy knows that the world can never come close to being based entirely on "voluntary agreement," so this seems like an incredibly silly metric upon which to construct your political theory.

I think I'm offended.