Re: Private Property

On 8/11/26 4:01 PM, Dude wrote:
> On 8/11/2026 1:45 PM, dart200 wrote:
>> On 8/11/26 11:52 AM, Dude wrote:
>>> On 8/10/2026 9:56 PM, dart200 wrote:
>>>> On 8/10/26 5:25 PM, Dude wrote:
>>>>> On 8/10/2026 2:41 PM, dart200 wrote:
>>>>>> On 8/10/26 2:36 PM, Dude wrote:
>>>>>>> On 8/10/2026 11:37 AM, dart200 wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 8/10/26 10:37 AM, Dude wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 8/9/2026 3:39 PM, dart200 wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You are incorrect. 99.9% of all people on earth live in nation 
>>>>>>>>> states.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> you are retarded
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You snipped this out:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The United Nations explicitly states that humans have rights 
>>>>>>>>> from birth in Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human 
>>>>>>>>> Rights, which proclaims that "all human beings are born free 
>>>>>>>>> and equal in dignity and rights".
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> well we've clearly failed to achieve that since most humans are 
>>>>>>>> chained to their nation states and lack equal freedom of movement
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal 
>>>>>>> Declaration of Human Rights, out of the 58 member states at the 
>>>>>>> time, 48 voted in favor, none voted against, 8 abstained, and 2 
>>>>>>> were absent.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  >
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> fuck you you dumb boomer cunt
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You snipped something out and cross-posted. Let me repeat:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> see what i mean? ur still defending property instead of 
>>>>>>>> addressing the fact 7/8 on this planet are not free enough to 
>>>>>>>> simply walk around freely
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The 8 Abstaining Countries:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Saudi Arabia (objected to certain articles, such as freedom of 
>>>>>>> religion and the right to change one's religion, viewing them as 
>>>>>>> contrary to Islamic law)South Africa (abstained due to its 
>>>>>>> apartheid system, which conflicted with the declaration's 
>>>>>>> principles on racial equality)
>>>>>>> Soviet Union
>>>>>>> Belarus
>>>>>>> Ukrainian
>>>>>>> Czechoslovakia
>>>>>>> Poland
>>>>>>
>>>>>> is this supposed to somehow defend the rest of world which hasn't 
>>>>>> managed basic freedom or movement??? idgaf what anyone signed dud,
>>>>>>
>>>>> Like I said:
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ur an absolute fucking unrepentant sinner unworthy of the air you 
>>>> breath dud. find a grave and sit in it
>>>>
>>> Like I said:
>>>
>>
>> choke on a large dick until you die u subhuman ape
>>
> We studied this in Elementary School:
> 

choke on a large dick until you die u subhuman ape

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