Re: Private Property

On 8/9/2026 9:18 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Aug 2026 09:03:41 -0700, Dude <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 8/9/2026 8:45 AM, Wilson wrote:
>>>
>>> At its core, free enterprise and a market economy can be reduced in many
>>> ways to an economic ideology centered around private property.  It gives
>>> me extraordinary joy to see how our founders, in writing the Declaration
>>> of Independence, declared that all men were "endowed by their Creator
>>> with certain unalienable rights, among them are life, liberty, and the
>>> pursuit of happiness."
>>>
>>> Here, the founders took the natural rights John Locke wrote about in his
>>> Second Treatise of Government in 1690 – "lives, liberties, and estates,
>>> which I call by the general name, property," and broadened it.  They
>>> presupposed that property was necessary for liberty and that the greater
>>> aspiration behind private property was "pursuit of happiness" (what we
>>> call "human flourishing" in my tradition).
>>>
>>> Just weeks before the Declaration of Independence was written, George
>>> Mason had codified in the Virginia Declaration of Rights that "the
>>> enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and
>>> possessing property" were predicates to "pursuing and obtaining
>>> happiness and safety."  The founding fathers were not waxing and waning
>>> philosophically – well, they were not /only/ doing that – they were
>>> expressing the lived experience of the settlers in the new world.
>>>
>>> The lived experience that served as the bedrock of our nation was one of
>>> private ownership driving incentives, of communal ownership discouraging
>>> productive work, and one where resentment was inevitable when rewards
>>> were equal, but effort was not.  Communal ownership of property had
>>> failed in practice because it was first a failed theory.
>>>
>>> Private property is a natural right that flows from our ability to earn,
>>> hold, possess, retain, and manage the fruits of our own labor.  It
>>> produces responsibility, stewardship, and abundance that align with
>>> human nature.
> 
> It can be defined that way...or not.  
 >
Did you complete 5th grade history class?
 >
There is nothing a priori about it.
>
You're cutting out again. A natural human right is a priori, that's why 
it is called a natural right, meaning from birth.

We studied this in school: The French Revolution

The revolution ended noble land monopolies and peasant dues in 1789.. 
Established private property as a basic human right. How?

By abolishing feudal land rights and establishing legal protections for 
individual ownership in the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
 >

>>> David L. Bahnsen
>>>
>> We studied this in school: The French Revolution
>>
>> The revolution ended noble land monopolies and peasant dues in 1789..
>> Established private property as a basic human right. How?
>>
>> By abolishing feudal land rights and establishing legal protections for
>> individual ownership in the Declaration of the Rights of Man.