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Funny how the universe throws coincidences your way.
Just after I scanned some of the this discussion earlier today I was working on another project. And this came to my eye.
I recall seeing, upthread, somebody saying something about property rights not be real rights, not like human rights. Sorry I can remember who offered that but I felt compelled.
To whomever said it. I suggest that that assertion is a statement of belief. It is an opinion. It is untestable and thus unresolvable. I'm sure that Smith and Hume, Rousseau and Voltaire, Locke, Hobbes and Hutchison have all weighed in on the issue and found each other equally unpersuaded.
That is why issues are best resolved not on a standard of rightness but simply community opinion - justices of the peace, juries, parliament, general populace - the answer is what the community wishes, as determined by one person more than the other side. For the time being. You can ask the question again during the next parliament.
As I assert my belief and state my opinion. :cheers:
Just after I scanned some of the this discussion earlier today I was working on another project. And this came to my eye.
"They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion."
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
I recall seeing, upthread, somebody saying something about property rights not be real rights, not like human rights. Sorry I can remember who offered that but I felt compelled.
To whomever said it. I suggest that that assertion is a statement of belief. It is an opinion. It is untestable and thus unresolvable. I'm sure that Smith and Hume, Rousseau and Voltaire, Locke, Hobbes and Hutchison have all weighed in on the issue and found each other equally unpersuaded.
That is why issues are best resolved not on a standard of rightness but simply community opinion - justices of the peace, juries, parliament, general populace - the answer is what the community wishes, as determined by one person more than the other side. For the time being. You can ask the question again during the next parliament.
As I assert my belief and state my opinion. :cheers: