Re: Private Property

On 8/9/26 3:21 PM, Dude wrote:
> On 8/9/2026 10:34 AM, dart200 wrote:
>> On 8/9/26 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.
>>>
>>> David L. Bahnsen
>>>
>>
>> i love how capitalists love to jerk themselves off about freedom and 
>> flourishing endlessly while ignoring the fact 7/8 are enslaved to a 
>> nation-state system that coercively interferes with basic freedom of 
>> movement
>>
> You are not responsible for anyone jerking themselves off, or not.
> 
> You are responsible only for your own jerking off - hopefully at home on 
> your own time, maybe in the bathroom. Hopefully nobody is forcing you to 
> stoop to self abuse, but that happens in marriage, especially just after 
> giving birth. YMMV.
>  >
>> this world is a travesty of authoritarian control all you can do is 
>> keep crying endlessly about private property, as violently owning 
>> stuff is the _only_ principle you actually care about
>>
> You have my sympathies. It's tough getting cut off! Remember, you have a 
> human right to pleasure yourself!
>  >
>>   > what disgustingly creepy inhumane fuck you are
>>
> It's nothing to be ashamed of, Nick.
>  >
>>   > #god
>>
> Hope this helps.

nice how you just ignored how capitalism went and chained 7/8 people of 
the entire planet to their respective nation states in service of the 
only principle they actually care about: private property

fuck you you dumb boomer cunt

  > get rebirthed into a 3rd world shithole
  >
  > #god

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