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Re: The nature of property (was: Idiots, Part Deux)
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Fri, 14 Feb 2003 06:10:18 GMT
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Christopher Weeks wrote:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Frank Filz writes:
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> > Unfortunately this debate which I feel is actually worthwhile to me is
> > getting burried by some other debate.
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> Buried in that other people aren't contributing their thoughts because they're
> too wrapped up in the more emotionally satisfying debates about unsolvable
> situations in the Middle East? Or buried in that _you_ are too busy in the
> other thread? (I'm not reading the stuff on terrorism or Iraq.)
Both. I have tried several times to bail out of .debate, but I've never
really stopped reading. I do tend to skim some peoples posts, and I
think I'm finally getting the self control to not respond to pointless
debates, but I still read them.
> > It seems like everytime you raise
> > the "should land be property" issue,
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> This makes me start to sound like a broken record. I guess that's because I
> haven't found anyone who writes on the idea (if anyone can point me, that'd be
> keen!) and haven't found people with whom to talk it through.
No more of a broken record than anyone else here... I'm certainly not
saying it's bad. To me, it's an interesting debate, and one where I feel
my opinions have room to change.
Finding people to talk to is definitely a problem for me. A good .debate
or a good game rules discussion exercises my brain in a way I don't use
at work. I keep thinking I should try and find more like minded people
at church. Sadly, I think too many UUs don't really explore things.
> > which would be new ground for
> > debate, some other debate starts up and burries this one under the
> > tiring Middle East or religion debates. This is what continually
> > frustrates me about .debate and makes me want to just wash my hands of
> > the whole thing.
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> We could talk it through anyway, just ignoring the repetitious flak. We might
> have fairly few participants, but we'd get some. We might have to be careful
> to not pursue our own spin-off debate topics too. I think the abortion issue
> is certainly tied to the right to exist, but not central to the point. It
> would be easy for us to spend serious time trying to figure out the impact on
> the morality of abortion and get distracted. One that I'm more likely to get
> twisted up on is the existence of _any_ goods since they all come from the land.
I'd certainly like to try and keep this discussion going. I agree that
the abortion issue is tied (though I think it may even be central), but
is best left out since it is way too charged for right now. I think a
good thoughtfull exploration of fundamental rights would end up guiding
us to the right answer on abortion.
I agree with your feeling that it's hard/impossible to separate portable
goods from land since they do come from land (or an extension of land in
the case of a meteorite falling). It may be better to abstract things a
step and talk about resources, of which land and energy are the two most
crucial (and of course they really aren't separate).
> My basic premise is that space in the universe can't be considered a limited
> good in a system that assures that people (intelligences?) have an innate right
> to exist.
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> This means that we (in the USA) have either misunderstood the role of real
> property by treating it as a good or we have been (accidentally) hypocritical
> by claiming the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" as I
> understand that phrase.
Well, I'm not sure it's assuming as absolute a right to exist as you
are.
Frank
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