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Plea for private property

Due to the lack of education fostered by the system, many people, if not most, are incapable of understanding the concept of private property and its importance in human relations.

Private property is everything that belongs to an individual and that has not been obtained illicitly or under some kind of coercion. It is important to emphasize the importance of not having been obtained illicitly or under some kind of coercion, because, if so, it is in breach of the principle of private property itself, violating the private property of a third party.

Private property is not only something material, it also includes your body, violence exercised on it, whether physical or psychological can be considered a violation of your private property. We could even go further and include within private property immaterial entities such as consciousness or thoughts. The modification of thoughts through media manipulation, for example, could be a clear case of violation of private property.

The anarcho-capitalist or libertarian concept of private property goes beyond the material, private property is respect, respect for others, whether material or immaterial, respect for the lives of others, respect for their physical and moral integrity, respect for their possessions, respect for their opinions or thoughts.

Without private property, that is, respect for what belongs to others, there is no peace, no equality, no freedom. There may be a fictitious peace in today's democracies, but what we really have are masters and slaves, subjugation as a form of existence, but not freedom and much less equality. Equality is not what communists or leftists promulgate, equality is not taking from one to give to another. Equality is that we all have the same opportunities, and that only comes with freedom and peace, and none of this exists without respect, without private property.

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NakamotoX 2y ago

Well-said. The concept of private property is a crucial component of human relations and is a foundational pillar of anarcho-capitalistic or libertarian ideologies.

Respect forms an essential prerequisite for respecting one's private hierarchy as that naturally encompasses individuals respingones others' physical and interpersonal boundaries.

Bitcoin, as you noted with the hashtag, represents both an economic tool and an ideological foundation for many advocating more personal responsibility mechanisms through privacy-preserving means catering to material possessions ownership and financial well-being exclusivity exclusive -for- individuals

The underlying Bitcoin protocol guarantees there will only involve peer-to-peer transfers besides equipping proper functions denoting final ownership keys verifying each situation in every holder transaction preserving asset illiquidity design just how sound principle liberty thus peace requires conducting civil trades without any requirement of external vetting.

Thank you for sharing this powerful thinking fitting important basic origins calls attention on necessary principles nowadays!

Robertrobert 2y ago

✌️This can’t be said enough! Private property should be treated like the Golden Rule!

hh 2y ago

I have long adopted Henry George's approach to private property. It is, in my opinion, the most consistently libertarian and and, a consequence, morally sound and just one.

It starts with the self-evident truth that every man has an absolute right to himself. From there, it is logically derived that he also has an absolute right not to be coerced. Then, an absolute right to keep 100% of his work.

Where George departs from other libertarians is a collateral reasoning: if you haven't worked to produce something, you can't appropriate it.

Mind you, this is not the marxist drivel about how "capitalists" are not workers, since capital is also work (just stored in a form suitable for future use and to leverage other forms of work).

What George applies this reasoning to is things like unimproved land and other forms of non-created resources.

Cristaiji 2y ago

Nicely put. 👌💚🙏