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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (46579)	2/23/2004 3:12:40 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 74559

<But universally kids start out saying they want to be good and are told they will be rewarded if they are good.> You mean at an older age. Infants start out with no concept of property and ownership. They first learn that there is a vast cornucopia of wondrous things that are useful and fun for them. There is no label on anything to identify the things as belonging to somebody in particular. They simply learn to want. By the time children are 2, 3 or 4, they are developing ideas that if another child has something, they can't just go and take it and can't just have anything they see in a supermarket. They then construct a systematic concept of ownership. It's a long, arduous process and unless an ethical philosophical basis for voluntary interaction among people is developed along with the concept of property, it is nothing more than a rule-based "Thou shalt not get caught with another person's property". They see property as something you get away from the other people if you can, not something to be voluntarily traded in synergistic creativity. They see a zero-sum game which is how life has always been out in the tribal hunter-gatherer world. Most people have very limited understanding of how wealth is created. We constantly are told about the disparity between the haves and have nots and how wealth needs to be shared out better as though wealth is a cake which was found and just needs divvying up. Respect for private property is limited and that's because people are generally NOT good. They steal! Half of electorates vote for more money to be taken away from others to be given to what THEY want, preferably right into their own pocket. I don't think either children or adults generally are good about property. They operate at best on a rule-based approach rather than an ethical approach. The Libertarian vote is an indication of the level of understanding of property, ethics and morals. The number of locks on doors is another indication. There is vast expense and inconvenience in securing property. It would be nice to have doors just to keep the wind and rain and animals out. The doors wouldn't need locks. Mqurice

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