UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS: SLAVERY, RAPE, PROSTITUTION, SEX We possess no rights we h

UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS: SLAVERY, RAPE, PROSTITUTION, SEX

We possess no rights we have not obtained in exchange, only obligations not to cause harm (export costs) in order to incentivize that exchange.

A right consists in that you may retaliate (yourself, via kin, via the sheriff, or via the courts) against imposition of costs upon you, without fear of further retaliation from others for having done so. That’s what a right conveys:

1) retaliation without fear of retaliation cycles.

2) demand for services of the judiciary to resolve conflicts when retaliation is beyond your ability.

3) demand for services of the judiciary to resolve a conflict because permission to retaliate has been normatively and institutionally limited to that which is obtained via the court.

FACTS

1) A woman possesses her body – that’s fact – as long as she and her kith and kin can defend it.

2) Under natural law, any violation of her possession will cause her and others to retaliate, thereby breaking the peace (condition of cooperation)

3) Therefore, almost universally, we grant women the right of retaliation as a norm, and institutionalize that right of retaliation in law.

HOWEVER

1) Different groups express and constrain obligations not-to-act depending upon the conditions necessary for (a) the preservation of cooperation within the group (b) the limit to aggression extra group.

Ergo, natural law is often violated.

THIS IS THE TRUTH

You defeat a people in war. You take a woman as your booty. You sell her to me as a slave. There are no conditions on her use.

I buy a woman as a slave. She has sold herself into slavery. Her sale under slavery includes or excludes use for sex.

As the number of slaves increases we want to preserve the peace so we agree to limit the actions that can be taken against slaves, in order to keep them from rebelling and killing the hosts.

As we grow wealthier we prefer not to permit slavery for the simple reason that we do not want our opponents to sell us into slavery, so we limit enslavement to certain classes that cannot reciprocate enslavement.

As we grow wealthier, we realize that people are more productive as voluntary Customers and Employees than they are as slaves, and we extend the protection of each other to our slaves, and free them.

To some degree employees and citizens are equivalent to slaves.

Only the Sovereign are in fact in possession of Sovereignty, Liberty, Freedom, and Consumption.

Sovereignty, Liberty, Freedom and Choice are Luxury Goods.

They are produced at high cost and through sustained effort.

Curt Doolittle

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev, Ukraine