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To: Dayuhan who wrote (85983)11/13/2004 9:26:09 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 793782
 
I find the focus on property excessively limited:

I define "property" as a person's life, his ideas, and what he morally aquires. That covers the neighborhood.

Morality can never serve as a basis for civil law because nobody can agree on what it is.

It can if you define it rigorously. All disputes come down to what I call "the universal can opener."

WHOSE PROPERTY IS IT?

My values are fine for me but neither I nor anyone else has any right to impose them on others.


Our legal code is an attempt to define values and set up a system for settling disputes about them. That is why we need to define "theft," for instance, on as rigorous a basis as possible. If you are not going to live as "Robinson Crusoe," you have to figure out a code for getting along with others.

It always comes down to "property rights."
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