LAW: PROPERTY MUST INCLUDE ANYTHING PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO DEFEND WITH VIOLENCE b

LAW: PROPERTY MUST INCLUDE ANYTHING PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO DEFEND WITH VIOLENCE

by Martin Štěpán

—“First, it is important to note that “property” (at least according to libertarians) is a strictly normative or legal concept. It is intended to provide a social framework by which violent conflict may be avoided, and to serve as the philosophical benchmark for adjudication if and when such violent conflict does occur.”—

Which is really all you need to know. If this is the purpose of legally recognizing property, it logically follows that we have to recognize anything that people are willing to defend with violence so that they can defend it in court instead.

So anything that follows after this and claims some kind of property isn’t genuine or legitimate and doesn’t actually consider willingness to use violence is inconsistent with the paragraph above and mere rationalization.

I still like C Chase and see he means well but he could have asked any of us before critiquing, if not Curt directly – there’s plenty of others ready to answer.

(referring to a straw man critique by chris chase)